Naim for a friend - unitilite or uniti 1

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That’s a pity. Mine was serviced and upgraded about three years ago. Even without the module it would still be a CD receiver and DAC though.

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I think the issue is that there are no supplies available now of the board that upgrades the unit to 192/24 capability and also you can’t fit a new screen without the 192/24 board.

So that wouldn’t affect most original Uniti streamers.

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Hi
today is the big day.
uniti lite will be shown to my friend :slight_smile:

I can not stop looking up other gear.
Found a unit serve for a good price.
Need to update it to 1.7c and read it to be bit tricky.
I ask myself if it might be better to look for a simple NAS for him where he can store his music. This is without the burning option, but I can burn his collection on my HDX and copy it over to NAS.

Question:
Will a CD ripped by HDX (naim file system) copied to NAS be played via naim app as it is stored on the HDX HDD?

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Yes, but you will need to run UPnP server software on the NAS. Best to save the rip as FLAC on the HDX, as although a WAV will play on other equipment the metadata in WAV may not be visible.

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Thanks
Had a testrun on my system.

  • Copied a CD rip (WAV) from HDX (MQ-directory) to my NAS (Minim on Synology)
    → CD was not found by naim APP by Minim when doing rescan (strangely it was found by n-Serve!)
  • Copied a CD rip (WAV) from Quobuz DL to my NAS (Minim on Synology)
    → File was found!
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Yes, that’s what I would expect. Convert the CD rip to FLAC on the HDX before you copy it and the metadata issue should disappear, allowing Minimserver to see it.

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Yeah … I am bit careful … my HDX is all WAV and I love it. Read the thread that conversion to Flac is no difference, but still a bit careful on that. Someday I will update to NDS or so and the HDX-files might move to NAS.

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Once you have copied a FLAC version to the other device you can convert back to WAV on the HDX if you prefer.

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@ChrisSU
I have bought a very easy to use and effective WAV to FLAC Converter for my MacBook. Tested the result (converted FLAC via minim → coded to WAV) and played both via HDX: 1. Flac (transcoded from NAS) 2. WAV from HDX HDD.
I could not hear any difference… Very very close - when not even identical.

Very much like to keep the WAVs on the HDX.
Is there something against converting via other options than the HDX itself?

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Hi
Would like thank you very much and … you are so right!
As written in the other thread (nd5xs2) and also opened with the words „I would like to stream only local“ … now…
i love streaming via quobuz…
I arrived at the next century :slight_smile:
Thanks chris !

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