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  1. View Classified Mutec MC-3 + USB for sale Immaculate re-clocking device for audio sources and especially for improving USB Audio. This is a UK sale. Now retailing at £999.00 this unit is available in original packaging. No description needed for those that know what this device can do. Bought from a UK HiFi dealer. Light use. Seller m5sime Date 09/04/22 Price 690.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers  
  2. not sure about the U2 Mini but the U1 Mini is not allowed to have USB and spdif or AES connected together to a DAC. Usb is clocked differently and hence was not supported. I did lots of A/B swap tests for choosing AES vs USB into my DAC and settled on USB plus a usb. cable upgrade
  3. I tried it with my Mytek DAC and couldn’t determine a difference so left it off.
  4. Good work! the first knob is the crossover filter frequency ie what it will let through to the sub. Min setting being 50Hz. Everything above gets cut off. 80 is a semi safe value. Higher numbers get your sub working more in the region of the lower base of the B&W speakers. Second knob is phase. Again mostly a twiddle and see about relative phase to your main speakers. A lot depends on the sub location. Corner placement will boost output. Try and see if bass seems better in each setting. Last knob is volume- self explanatory - how loud it is vs your amplified B&W. Lower is better to fill in more than ‘be heard’.
  5. Hi - This should be pretty straightforward as has been described already. Use a STEREO Phono/RCA analogue cable to your SUB using the stereo in on the MINX. The Brooklyn outputs by default to XLR and RCA simultaneously. Suggest turn off the sub. Play some music as 'normal' via the DAC into the AMP and the B&W's.. reasonable volume.. loud enough.. Then go to the sub.. set the crossover frequency around 8-120Hz (the dial on the back).. Have the sub volume at 0.. turn on the sub and then dial up the volume of the sub (leaving the DAC alone as it is operating as pre-amp I assume (dynamic volume). You should not 'hear' the sub, but feel its effects. There are articles online for setting up subwoofers and dialling them in.. It is a combination of volume (gain) and filter frequency to get them to re-enforce rather than make itself too obvious. Once done.. you can use just the Brooklyn as the master volume control and see if the sub needs to be tweaked up or down. It is hard to get right.. The B&W 603s probably already have a large amount of bass, so your sub may be best suited to lower crossover frequency (nearer 80 or less) and more volume than the other way around..
  6. I moved from a Rendu setup to U1 Mini and was very happy. I also had a Mutec re-clocker and found little use for it after the upgrade. My own view is a piece of kit is only worth paying what you think the value is.. surely start with a U1 mini and see how you like it, get a loaner etc. note I ended up also auditioning usb cables with this setup change and was surprised to hear subtle but good differences and ended up having to step up to the tellurium Q vs others I auditioned.
  7. FYI I too asked for the iOS features in Lock Screen and it was fed back as not relevant for the LUMIN customers. I have this feature with Sonos and it’s very useful !!
  8. Sounds odd.. I have a new mini and use my iPhone 12 Pro Max and have only needed to setup tidal once. It has been streaming almost 24x7 for 10 days.. perhaps a reset and re-setup.
  9. Did some quick searches and as often the case in HiFi, uncovered the Mariana Trench in discussions.. Put simply - the concept seems to be all about impedance mismatch and cable reflections and 1.5M being a supposed ideal in balance of reflection attenuation vs pickup of additional noise.. Interesting that so few promote a 1.5m cable as a sellable unit.. Some explanation here. https://www.lessloss.com/lessloss-digital-cable-p-195.html
  10. Any details why? I read something around wavelengths of SPDIF signals. I assume if someone were designing a product for an internal linkage of SPDIF (and why would they), they would have low tx power for a v short distance. I wonder if some products prefer some attenuation? (not that 1.5M of decent spec 110 ohm AES cable has much loss)..
  11. Re 2. - Thank you! DHCP in a home setup can take a small amount of time.. Re 1. - mine is v short (12cm of cable).. Deliberately to remove cable effects.. What are the reasons for the 1.5M? I have read this somewhere else re SPDIF before.
  12. Confirmed working.. it is a bit confusing re the 'login' as there are no password fields.. Unless I had a radio station set to 'favourite' in the web app online, then LUMIN didn't do anything. Once I had a channel added, then it appeared with just the login username (email). TuneIn obviously allows favourites to be pulled without any authentication (which seems odd)..
  13. I forgot to add that the UI Mini can upsample audio feeds.. I only tried 44.1 KHz standard PCM from TIDAL (FLAC). It allows for 2x, 3x etc and also conversion to DSD.. When streaming into the Mytek DAC using USB (but again on amplified desktop hifi speakers) I could not hear any benefit. In fact in general, I thought the original sounded a teeny bit better. My DAC is pretty good by most standards, so expect this may have been less of an advantage to that DAC. I could not hear anything re DSD vs PCM either. Leaving that setting off.. Naturally the upper clock rates and DSD need the USB connection vs AES/SPDIF.
  14. The app seems to ask for a username but then does not provide a password box. I went and registered with TuneIn and hence was baffled that the App does not ask for the two fields.
  15. Update time: As some of you know I started this thread seeking a way of getting rid of Roon, Roon Core (Rock), Roon client and potentially also my Sonore MicroRendu. My goal was to have something as simple as Sonos ZP90 (cloud/app powered UX streamer). Your advice on here led me to look at options: Auralic Aries G1 - great reviews for the App. Hardware looks good. On greater digging realising that Spotify is not embedded in the App (uses the connect path that Spotify seems to be pushing). That was an initial issue.. so I kept looking Aurender - Strong positives from some of you.. Checked the pricing.. And er no.. Too expensive for my needs. LUMIN - U1 Mini - seemed to be a nice price point (1700 quid or so), again app positive noises from you, they are active on the forums (Peter). Same setup as Auralic with the way Spotify works. I decided to ping the nice chaps at Audiobarn UK and got a paid loaner of a U1 Mini for test. Conclusions - Outclassed my Sonos ZP90 (no surprise there!) Stable operation. Minor crashes in the app. Using a cheapo USB cable and a broadcast grade v short AES/EBU XLR cable into my DAC I generally preferred the AES (confirming my assumption that AES sounds better into my DAC (Mytel Brooklyn) I then decided to try some HiFi USB cables - again a paid demo. AQ Carbon vs Chord Shawline vs Tellurium Q Black. I needed to concentrate when listening and when I tested using tracks with piano that differences were large! The TQ Black was the best overall by some margin (300 quid). The closest was then the AQ Carbon (feels much cheaper, bit stiff and connectors were a looser fit). The Chord didnt shine in my setup. I did some more listening and preferred the USB vs AES now (using the TQ Black).. So that theory went.. I then did some tests my bringing my Mutec MC3+USB into the loop.. USB into that and AES into my DAC.. - no real gain at least in the test system (which was a desktop setup vs my normal hifi setup - much easier for swapping cables and controlled listening). I will do more tests for the Mutec and see if this will bring enough to warrant being in the midst of my chain. The LUMIN U1 Mini - Nice solid device. Sound performance is excellent. Slight oddities: On boot it says network error when in fact it is still booting-up and has a network connection (perhaps waiting for a DHCP lease). Could be masked for 20 secs to make a nicer boot sequence as the network issue isnt valid yet Didnt get tune-in to work.. Oddly asks for an account - pretty sure I can stream from tune in without an account.. Lovely feature of the Sonos on iOS - the standby screen/lock screen of the iPhone shows the track/artwork and a skip/pause button etc.. Nice feature to move a song on without unlocking the phone.. Requested consideration from Peter at LUMIN (but wasn't convinced). Committed the minor sin that many others have - connecting USB and AES/SPDIF from the U1 Mini at the same time (works OK, but had some odd issues with MQA lock up in AES mode).. I was A/B switching on my DAC to listen to the differences. Rightly told off by Peter that this is not supported as the USB mode has different timing for the data exchange (pull) vs the AES/SPDIF mode.. USB ports - generic label of 1 & 2 - no indication of in or out.. whether storage or DAC. Guess entirely flexible.. Did wonder if there was a better port for 'streaming to the DAC' and one for USB storage.. Testing was all TIDAL FLAC and Master MQA streaming (no local music) Tested the Spotify Connect option - stable and quick (just select the LUMIN device as a speaker) Roon Core, Rendu, Linear PSU setup - all now spare. Not tested sound quality of the Rendu vs Lumin (and not interested to) LUMIN U1 Mini is a keeper - getting it in Black (demo model was brushed Aluminium) Thanks for all your help with this thread and advice. I was originally thinking to get the Bluesound Node 2i.. Jack at Audiobarn didn't suggest it was an upgrade for me (not much better an experience than the Sonos (ease of use) and not enough of an upgrade in SQ.. Now that I am using USB into my DAC (I had not planned to end up there) I am glad I went with the LUMIN.. Cheers Simon
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