silverarrows

It's not the same type of backup you're looking for, but what about Vox Loop to have another backup of your music? Also, another idea is to set up another NAS as a duplicate of yours and keep it at someone else's place. You can use Resilio Sync afterward to keep everything synced.

I've been using Roon through a trial after purchasing a DragonFly Red. I've been looking around, but can't find an explanation I can understand. What type of processing does Roon do, in particular on Macs? In comparing my library and Tidal to Audirvana Plus, I find Roon has such an engaging sound I can't stop listening. I'm using an i7 iMac into a Chord Mojo then Focal Elears. I am considering a lifetime subscription to Roon, but am on the fence. If Spotify goes lossless I'll switch over from Tidal as it works better for my musical preferences.

The Netgear R7000 has worked very well for me.

When my electrostatic speakers died I went in to hear Magnepans as a replacement. I was ready to pull the trigger, but before doing so had a listen to the Mu-So. I was impressed. It has the Naim house sound. What is also useful about the Mu-So is it has good connectivity options. But then...I saw a Phantom in the corner. After hearing that I bought the Phantom and eventually sold off my entire system. The Spark software is a work in progress and connectivity options are thorough as the Mu-So, but that can be taken care of with with an Airport Express. I thought I was done, but then I returned the Phantom. I now have 2 Silver Phantoms in stereo. 1 is fantastic on it's own, 2 is better. I don't want to get into a debate about separates and value for money, but the Phantom has a sound I like and I'm happy to no longer be tweaking and seeing if things like power cords or other cables make a difference. In terms of the price, relative to the Mu-So, it depends where you are in the world and the exchange rate. For What Hi-Fi I would think the spread between the two is larger in the UK than other parts of the world. From my end I can now spend more time enjoying the music with a simplified setup. As development continues, while the Mu-So (and Phantom for that matter) may seem like a niche product today, the engineering, simplicity, and ability to just listen to music has the potential to push stereo components into niche status.

The Oppo HA-2 is out there now. With the V2+ you're going to have to wait, but won't know for how long. What's nice about the HA-2 is it works with the lightning connection, no camera connection kit required.

Like other Oppo products the HA-2 is well designed, polished, and works well with Android, iOS, and Mac. I use it with all of them. I had a Geek Out 720 before which I sold. Comparatively, the Geek Out was quirky but sounded better. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Sorry, I meant V2+. Thanks for the correction.

Tidal does have a few things to improve, but it's real challenge is the negative publicity and all the hate for Jay Z. Well known sites you don't expect manage to drop in curse words when publishing articles on Tidal. Jay Z purchased Tidal for only $56 million, ~1/10th of what Apple paid for Beats Music, so it's not a massive investment.

The one to get is the Geek Out V2 as it has a battery. You also need to get a micro USB B to micro USB B connector so the DAC doesn't drain the battery from your phone, simple OTG cables won't work for that. I would have dropped for the Geek Out V2, but I already have an Oppo HA-2, which does work well with my Android phone.

For some reason Bay Bloor Radio has a great price on the PSB M4U2 headphones.

I wonder if Spotify will do the reverse now and offer a lossless tier. For my musical tastes Spotify has a better catalog, but I like TIDAL's quality so I subscribe to both.

Funny, I always thought labels under-compensated artists and for all we know, the label could be behind her move. Whether you like electronic music or not, one of the reasons why it has exploded over the years is the DJs/artists realized online distribution is the way to go. They give their music for free in Podcasts, Soundcloud, Mixcloud and any other means available, then tour hard. Many artists have their own labels or sub-labels and are given much more freedom to manage their music and distribution. Black Hole Recordings, Anjunabeats and Armada are excellent examples.

Neutron sounds very good but is quirky. Can't always get it to work the way I'd like. Very much a love/hate relationship. Edit: Just tried the Onkyo HF Player, like it, like it a lot.

I'll have to see what functionality it eventually has, but one interesting thing I noticed in the Lollipop feature list is USB out. As stated on the site "USB Audio support means you can plug USB microphones, speakers, and a myriad of other USB audio devices like amplifiers and mixers into your Android device". This should open up the door for Android-based servers.

Just offering 16/44 lossless would be a good start for me. If they can offer more that's only upside. I do think there is an opportunity for Apple here. I'm going to take a guess that although it is a smaller number of people, those that do care more about sound quality are likely to spend more on music if a higher resolution/better quality option is available compared to the MP3 generation.