Lumin D2 user here.
I’m a retiring IT consultant and hardware person. I have several notebooks around that could be used as a transport feeding a DAC.
The D2 frees me from messing with a computer tied to my audio system, and the maintenance, updates, and configuration of same.
I messed with 5 different streamers before I finally bought the D2.
Pros:
One small box
Decent app (far from perfect)
Excellent sound quality - easily surpassing what can be stored in a digital file. Upsamples most anything to DSD
Plays most file formats (except for WMA)
Decent price point.
Cons:
Requires some sort of UPNP server. I have a Synology NAS which has a basic UPNP server, and the free version of Lumin’s recommendation of MinimServer is available as a “package” from Synology. Takes some messing - especially with a few TB of poorly tagged and mixed file formats.
As I have cleaned up my music library, I’ve gotten used to the shuffle: UPNP rescan, reload music library, check app for proper tagging, album art, etc.
Pull the trigger! Open box prices are 10-15% below retail.
I’m a retiring IT consultant and hardware person. I have several notebooks around that could be used as a transport feeding a DAC.
The D2 frees me from messing with a computer tied to my audio system, and the maintenance, updates, and configuration of same.
I messed with 5 different streamers before I finally bought the D2.
Pros:
One small box
Decent app (far from perfect)
Excellent sound quality - easily surpassing what can be stored in a digital file. Upsamples most anything to DSD
Plays most file formats (except for WMA)
Decent price point.
Cons:
Requires some sort of UPNP server. I have a Synology NAS which has a basic UPNP server, and the free version of Lumin’s recommendation of MinimServer is available as a “package” from Synology. Takes some messing - especially with a few TB of poorly tagged and mixed file formats.
As I have cleaned up my music library, I’ve gotten used to the shuffle: UPNP rescan, reload music library, check app for proper tagging, album art, etc.
Pull the trigger! Open box prices are 10-15% below retail.