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What do I do with this Auralic?

I recently and very impulsively purchased a display model of an Auralic Vega G2 (unused but reboxed) in a liquidationsale for $600. Now I have heard of Auralic and that they make great products but I am a novice in digital music. The Vega is easy to setup as a streamer and the DS Lightning control app is great. What is even better is the sound, Tidal and even Spotify sound great. It really is superb (to my old ears anyway).

My problem is I can't figure out how to play all my music stored on my NAS. About all I do know is that my NAS is too old and not powerful enough to play via HS USB. Has anyone on here used one of these and how. I have this thing about Roon and paying $595 or whatever for a licence and even then I still need something to store the music files.

A high spec NAS would work but I am not keen on this as it would need to be in the listening room. Or I could use it as a $600 paperweight!!! Any good ideas please?
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mgrif104
335 posts
 
I’d be seriously interested in buying your paperweight...

You actually need to pair it with a server - the Vega G2 is only a streamer/DAC.  It was designed that way to pair with another device in order to have server (network files) available. 

Let me know if you’re interested.

Best,
mgrif104


oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
They talk about the USB driver download. Have you read the manuel?
It has a lot of information, like the software it will work with. The USB file needed, how good their product is, you know the regular mumbo-jumbo!

If your source is to slow,  it's best to COPY from there to a new media. Sounds so easy. LOL  So your using a storage device, that is USB 1.0
(RAID) storage, and too slow to stream from?
The music file format is what you need to know.
I would move the files (if they are compatible) to the faster device.

600.00 paper weight?  They were over 3,000.00, according to review information.

I'll keep looking

Regards

big_greg
6,568 posts
 
I'm not familiar with the unit you have, but in general, you need to share the files on your network so that other devices can access them through DLNA. 

According to a quick search, it supports UPnP/DLNA.  For Windows you can get a media server like Serviio for free and put it on the computer with the NAS where your music files are.  Use Serviio to set up a share of your music files, then you should be able to use the Lightning app to play the files. 

If your NAS is old, copying to a SSD or even just a fast spinning USB hard drive should work fine.  It's probably not your NAS that's keeping you from listening though, it's more likely that your files aren't shared on the network.
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