Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Sorry man, I’m at home with a fever so not making much sense. here’s an attempt at a recap:

1. gigabyte brix or Mac mini holding your music. Install plex or any free DLNA software (or Roon) on it to play and also cast to other compatible clients in your home. External DAC connected to the brix, such as a a topping d30 or the sound blaster D5/6 DAC I linked to earlier.
   
2. QNAP ts-453 with western digital red hard drives. An external 3.5” hard drive to back up data over usb. I like plex and use google chromecasts as clients but you can use any DLNA Server software on the NAS (or again, Roon) and any client you fancy like Sonos connect or a SMSL DP3 or a brix or Mac mini.
   
3. Yamaha WXC-50 or SMSL DP3 (edit: or Sonos connect) or any other decent network music player. Shove a big usb pen drive or external 2.5” solid state drive in the back containing your music. You should be able to cast to other rooms with the Yamaha I think.
   
4. BlueNote vault or any other “all in one” player and storage solution like the one you linked to.
   
5. Sonos connect or whatever in each room and a Spotify / Deezer / tidal account. Sack off your cds and pay £10 a month
   
   

Obviously if you use a proprietary (non DLNA) server then you need a compatible client device.

There are probably other options but these are the ones I can think of. Hope this helps