Hi,
thinking of going the NAS route. I currently have an HRT Music streamer II hooked up to my system, and I play through it using my laptop with the music in FLAC stored locally.
I've noticed that the Synology DS112J says it can play through a USB soundcard or USB speakers directly if you like. sounds like an interesting option - assuming ti would work with my HRT DAC, particularly since I think you can use the DS Audio app to control playback, thus taking the PC out of the loop altogether.
If I had DS112J - HRT DAC via USB - amp as my system, are there any obvious flaws here that people are aware of in terms of sound quality?
I know the whole bit perfect thing is a bit of a moot point. I sit somewhere on the scale where I won't cry myself to sleep if I don't have it, but I would at least like this setup to function reasonably well if I'm going to go down that route.
I only ask because I've had real hastle with Foobar and my laptop and the DAC, messing around with WASAPI and ASIO and buffers and all sorts. Presumably the DS112J firmware would have to manage all the playback and pushing the music to the DAC, and I don't know how well equipped it is to do this.
Any thoughts or obvious barriers that come to mind?
Cheers.
thinking of going the NAS route. I currently have an HRT Music streamer II hooked up to my system, and I play through it using my laptop with the music in FLAC stored locally.
I've noticed that the Synology DS112J says it can play through a USB soundcard or USB speakers directly if you like. sounds like an interesting option - assuming ti would work with my HRT DAC, particularly since I think you can use the DS Audio app to control playback, thus taking the PC out of the loop altogether.
If I had DS112J - HRT DAC via USB - amp as my system, are there any obvious flaws here that people are aware of in terms of sound quality?
I know the whole bit perfect thing is a bit of a moot point. I sit somewhere on the scale where I won't cry myself to sleep if I don't have it, but I would at least like this setup to function reasonably well if I'm going to go down that route.
I only ask because I've had real hastle with Foobar and my laptop and the DAC, messing around with WASAPI and ASIO and buffers and all sorts. Presumably the DS112J firmware would have to manage all the playback and pushing the music to the DAC, and I don't know how well equipped it is to do this.
Any thoughts or obvious barriers that come to mind?
Cheers.