I have been wondering about upgrading the cable, or making my own. I was looking at the Farad ones. What's the difference between the two sonically?
Lumin U2 Mini
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Mundorf silver/gold has a leaner sound than the Farad copper L2, but I love the tone and insight Mundorf provides.
Farad copper L2 has more body.
In any case, they sound totally different.
I settled on the Farad copper L2.
At first I didn’t like it, but once I went to Actinote cables, it all came together.
The U2 mini is impressive.
Lumin dropped the noise floor and upped the music and musicality big time with this.
I agree at this price, with a LPS, there is no competitor in sight.
At first I didn’t like it, but once I went to Actinote cables, it all came together.
The U2 mini is impressive.
Lumin dropped the noise floor and upped the music and musicality big time with this.
I agree at this price, with a LPS, there is no competitor in sight.
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I used the Audio sensibility silver plated copper kit on U1 mini.
I now use Farad L2 copper on U2 mini.
U2 mini with a good LPS is going to be hard to beat at its price point. It's an end game server for most people.
Well in the end LUMIN is also customer oriented, and they also claim to be uptodate with their firmware updates concerning connectivity, other services etc.
And HQPlayer has become increasingly popular over the years. As ROON’s RAAT is a protocol so is NAA, so they should be able to include this too quickly.
And HQPlayer has become increasingly popular over the years. As ROON’s RAAT is a protocol so is NAA, so they should be able to include this too quickly.
Yes it’s obviously really very quickly added and even far cheaper streamers like iFi ZEN stream have NAA support. In the end NAA provides great capabilities for improving the sound and that is what counts for the customers.
I wrote them via Facebook page but just got a standard „thank you for your feedback“ response. Maybe some here are better connected?
I wrote them via Facebook page but just got a standard „thank you for your feedback“ response. Maybe some here are better connected?
I'm not a LUMIN representative, but maybe I can help if you have a question? There are also LUMIN reps on the Audioshark and Roon Community forums.
It would be great if you could get information when the long asked HQPlayer / NAA support will be available in LUMIN.
Peter Lie (Lumin Firmware Lead) responded on another forum that HQPlayer / NAA is not supported and didn't mention any planned implementation.
Well people are asking this for years and once in a while Peter/wklie is posting that „default answer“. But I am sure as LUMIN claims to be very responsive and uptodate with its software they should finally address an integration.
I have no idea why they don’t provide more feedback on that topic. It’s increasingly becoming relevant as more people are using HQPlayer (especially those in highend which LUMIN addresses) and they already support ROON/RAAT.
I also read HQPlayer is gladly supporting them and an integration can easily be done.
So as a LUMIN user I very much would expect a transparent communication from the LUMIN team about that. I very much love the LUMIN products but when they won’t integrate it anytime soon I sadly would have to move on to other vendors. And I hardly can imagine that scenario as it could be easily done by them and further attract HQPlayer users to their products.
Well there are Holo Audio Red, iFi ZEN stream, Sonore, T+A etc. but I very much would love to stay flexibel with the LUMIN as the mentioned ones provide too.
I currently intend to use ROON as frontend/UX and have the streamer delivered via NAA.
Or would you suggest an alternative approach?
I love my Lumin but I don't use HQPlayer anymore. If I did I would probably have a Signature Rendu SE.
The Lumin is optimized for their own software. That's how it sounds best.
Well also the ROONONLYMODE (RAAT protocol) works very nicely on the LUMIN - and would be the equivalent of the NAA.
I don't have any other information about HQPlayer in the context of LUMIN. Peter Lie's answer is what you should use.
FWIW, in my experience a significantly larger number of people are using Roon with their network streaming endpoints than are using HQPlayer.
FWIW, in my experience a significantly larger number of people are using Roon with their network streaming endpoints than are using HQPlayer.
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