Merdatauri

Unfortunately, I don't have any means of testing what the DAC is seeing. With my study system (Digital Renaissance Tube DAC (know nothing about it - gift from a friend), old Technics SU-V2X and Celestion SL-600s) it sounds very good, but I've not compared it to a CD. For my main system (Meridian CD206, Quad 44/606, Rogers LS7s) I might be tempted to try a more high end renderer, but I need to find a good DAC first - I was thinking of a a Cambridge Audio Dacmagic 100. I'll try one of the Goodmans Modules first to see how it compares to the Meridian.

I should add that I'm so impressed by these very cheap Goodmans Module renderers (£9.99 GBP from Amazon) that I'm going to buy a couple more and run them with a decent DAC for my two other systems. Thanks again for all your help.

I had already added the second room to the renderer list in BubbleUpNP which then appeared in the list of devices on Kazoo. So I could select either destination from Kazoo which worked well. I then opened the Allplay app on my iPhone and found that I could control the volume, pause play, move to the next track etc. from it - again, very handy. At the same time I found that Allplay would also allow me to group the two rooms I have set up which didn't seem to confuse Kazoo at all, it just kept working as if just targeting one device.

Just discovered that somewhat perplexingly - at least to a computer blunderer like myself - that the Allplay Jukebox app allows me to group players which can then be controlled from Kazoo, which is nice!

Thanks so much for your guidance on this. Amazingly, I've managed to get all this to work. Unfortunately Kazoo won't allow me to group the renderers, but that's no big deal.

I have a couple of Goodmans Module DLNA renderers which work fine with the Qualcomm iPhone App controlling Serviio music server on my iMac. In fact, I'm incredibly impressed with them when used with a separate DAC. However, I'd like to control the Serviio connection to the Goodmans renderers directly from the Mac. Serviio's media browser only allows me to play media from the server in a browser window using the iMac's audio. I've searched in vain for suitable software for a couple of days now. I did download Kinsky which recognised the Goodmans renderers as UPnP devices but wouldn't play any audio. Can anyone suggest software that could solve my problem? Not looking for a freebie, but I've been unwilling to purchase Apps like FireStream as I'm not sure it will do what I want.

Again, Eloise, many thanks for your guidance. Just one more thing: if I plug into the combined analogue/optical socket will this disable the internal audio on the iMac? Appreciate you may not know the answer to this as it's computer and not audio specific. Best regards David

I've been doing a bit more investigating. I didn't realise that the headphone out on the iMac was also a mini Toslink. Does this mean I can connect to an optical input on a dac?

Looks like a nice bit of kit.

Thank you Elf - you've been really helpful. I'll let you know how I get on. Best regards David

I found something that I like the look of - SMSL SD-022+ 24bit 96kHz TE7022 DAC USB Coaxial AC3 DTS PCM SD022+ | eBay - but I'm not sure this thing will decode Apple .m4a files. Anyone have any insight?

They look great, always respected Arcam stuff - even second-hand still probably more than I wish to spend at the moment.

Thanks, if I was looking for something for my main set-up (Quad 44/606, Rogers LS7s) then I think I'd consider one of these or a Rega DAC. But I'm not planning on going down that route - I still buy CDs and having spent a grand on a Meridian CD player 20 + years ago, I feel I still need to get VFM out of that! I think for my study set-up I'm looking to spend as little as possible ie sub fifty quid.

No USB on these though is there?

Thanks, 'twas my first port of call, but I'm not sure what I need. For instance, the item in your link doesn't have a pair of phonos for the output, how does it connect to the amp? Sorry to be so stupid, I'm more than a bit ignorant about this stuff.