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  1. Welcome - nice to see another user from DK
  2. I'm with yago here. In my experience, for non-trivial distances a pair of Asus RT-AC66U will do a good job.
  3. Try to pick up a rebated / preowned / refurbished Naim ND5 XS. Superb sound quality and Naim is very serious about supporting Tidal.
  4. I disagree. There is a connection available on all 2016 notebooks that is better at isolation and much more widely employed to transport audio to playback devices than USB. We are, of course, talking wifi and technologies such as airplay, chromecast or roon. If we want to improve quality of ubiquitously available audio playback, we should focus on getting good endpoint implementations of these technologies.
  5. If money is not tight, go with a 4-bay model. 415+, 415play or worst case 416. The 415+ would be my choice with 2 GB RAM and quad 2.4 GHz Intel Atom CPU. In other words, plenty of power and expandability. 4-bay is really nice when expanding to new/larger disks safely and comfortably. Bought mine for backups and audio - now find myself streaming tons of video, too. If money is a factor, see if you can get your fingers on a cheap 214play. Pretty ok with 1GB RAM and dual core 1.6 GHz.
  6. You are a bad loser. Those two called out your blatant marketing attempt for what it is: unsubstantiated bullshit. Take it like a man and stop whining :-)
  7. Incl. 2 SSDs and a 3.8 GHz top of the line Xeon CPU: approx $4000.
  8. I also use either zfs or btrfs - the latter being much more flexible if we are talking small numbers of disks. Just set up a small server with 16 TB mirrorered btrfs raid and 128 GB ECC ram.
  9. Yes, although as far ad I can see the author has no clue about probabilities and what they mean. For private use I always prefer a raid1 of two cheap sata drives over one equally expensive sas disk (scales for multiple disks). The chances of encountering unrecoverable read errors are, of course, increased with 2 instead of 1 disks, but the chances that both drives fail on the same sector are decreased by several orders of magnitude compared to a single sas disk.
  10. Or Plex Media Server on the Synology and stream via an Apple TV 4 + (HDMI) DAC - basically (except for the HDMI part) my setup
  11. Thanks for setting the record straight. Another way of viewing Gödel's theorem is that any powerful mathematical system hast to be either inconsistent or incomplete. So there are mathematical systems which allow to prove all true formulas, but they are only consistent when they are too simple to be useful. Gödel put a stop to the dream of axiomatizing mathematics and being able to prove everything on this basis. Kept a lot of mathematicians in their jobs
  12. The laws of thermodynamics are a bad example of absolute truths. They are purely empirical (although well-supported) and in particular the 2nd might oversimplify things (think e.g. nonequilibrium systems). The algorithms of data compression preserve the digital data. That is an absolute truth. Note that this does not imply that concrete implementations of them necessarily are correct. But the correctness of implementations can be established beyond any level of doubt using empirical methods.
  13. Fine NAS and pricing seems fair. That said, rolling your own would allow for more customization and could save a few bucks. But more hassle for sure, and you should be fairly firm in linux system administration. Just got my new server baby delivered - 6 cores at 3.8 GHz, 128 GB RAM, two 240 GB SSDs as fast cache + 16TB slower storage. That's kicking the iX systems but at a price point of good $4000. More than their offering for 16 TB (at below $2000), but if you add the RAM and SSD, it will be more expensive. But surprisingly little.
  14. I am also happy with the less expensive ("cheaper") Focusrite line - my Scarlett 2i2 works great as an ADC and as a microphone preamp. For casual playback, I prefer my dacmagic, though. Although I have to admit that the stereo imaging of the focusrite is top notch.
  15. Asynchronous buffers are not perfect. That said, he was talking about less than optimally implemented DACs.
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