As Fredrik has said in the past it can be difficult to get good sound and good musicality at the same time .This would concur with David's observations on the j vs GA ,where j is warmer with a fuller and more impressive sound but less engaging .

Got my Hakai up and running with the GA-N3150N-D3V flavour. [...] Listening to an album on the Haki is akin to listening to the album during the early days of discovering the album, it really is that good. [...] YES!!! What did you use before the HAKAI? LP12 apart ,it was cheap streamers(Chromecast...

A Scotsman calling an Englishman cheap? Ha ha! You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and you'll get a Hakai before me. LOL I have time to decide and consider options since it's not the preferred board, as you yourself decided, and the email hasn't arrived yet from the supplier... Once...

As the Hakis are slowly streaming in I thought it would be good to give initial tasting notes as far as burn-in goes. I've only had mine up and running for 2 days and listening has been quite sporadic and although extremely musical its sounding thinner than I had expected except when real bass shows...

tokenbrit wrote:

Lego wrote: .. at a price you want to pay.

Exactly ;) We're all different wrt budget, principles, goals, priorities, etc.

With a little bit of wiggle room ,once you hear it though perhaps you might feel you were a little ...........I'll let you fill it in once you've been Hakaid :o)

.. when you hear the Hakai up and running I can assure you, you will not be munching your teeth about a measly 20% , you'll be wishing you had bought 2 ...LOL Curious from the person that asked to be counted out... LOL Maybe I have been in the States too long but taxation without representation doe...

Got my Hakai up and running with the GA-N3150N-D3V flavour. Initially, Volumio wasn't seen in the network then it was, then it wasn't so decided to get another router and have a separate network for the Hakai and so far it's been very stable. I also decided to turn off digital volume which makes me ...

Thanks for the update - much appreciated. No email as yet, but will have to decide on the VAT... I admit I do not understand why the supplier cannot just zero-rate the sale per the HM Revenue & Customs gov.uk webpage : "zero rate the sale, as long as you get and keep evidence of the export...". Of ...

This is a very simple build of a raspberry pi nas using a single ssd ,micro sd card and Openmedia Nas software

https://youtu.be/gT-EGNl9bZA

Just start buying Intel 320’s 600 GB I guess :) I was under the impression that you can only attach 4 to the 3150 motherboard. Is there a way around that? Sorry for my computer ignorance... That’s a problem of course. Maybe you could sort out a couple of TBs with important music and keep your curre...

Got it to work again, stopped sharing the folders, re-installed Lumin, and changed some settings in Lumin activating UPnP Search and Remote Acces. Not sure what did it. Just spoke to someone and they changed firewall settings in windows and could access files on Hakai volumio and cast(with windows)...

Sopper wrote:

matthias wrote:@Sopper
You can use Audirvana for streaming Qobuz and Tidal to Volumio too.

Matt

I’ll pass... €75 versus free BubbleUPnP server

Are you sure you're an apple user !!??

You do not need Bubbleupnp server on your pc or actually need a pc to stream quobuz tidal etc but as I am typing this I realize sopper must be an iPhone user.If you have Android all you need is bubble upnp app to cast Qobuz Tidal and Google music to Hakai although Azazello managed to stream Gmusic f...

Looks like Sopper has inadvertently built a NAS and using it as a streamer

Running HAKAI one week now and it has been quite frustrating with Volumio. Exactly the same issues you described... I tried Daphile from bootable usb stick and this software player works flawlessly, but has not the exciting sound Volumio has. So I figured that the problems are not caused by the Esi...

Nice work Azazello, are you not tempted to try Fidelizer on windows to see if that also improves things http://www.fidelizer-audio.com/

Thank you Lego! I got it working today with Twonky on Windows 10 and Lumin, but will give that a go as well and see if I can “mount” the files to Volumio directly as well! I’ll post some clips later, but my initial impression is that it improves things by quite some margain! That's great news Azaze...

Is this of any help Azazello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBrbzoghTsI

Hmm not sure about this Please count me out, David..I do apologize,I'll stick with what I know and dont want to be too hasty

David Neel wrote:I'm struggling with something similar. Rebuilt the J3455 board as a NAS, I've done this before but now I can't get it visible on the network. So Volumio on the streamer can't find it...

Did volumio Nas improve the sound of your Akurate DS David!?

I cant get Volumio to find anything else than the Qnap (that it just found) and I have no clue what so ever where the problem lies. Is there someone who can help out? I have tried to share files through Windows, FreeNAS, Miniserver and Asset. Nothing. Check your network Azazwllo http://docs.linn.co...

That's very interesting Matthias, have you heard the Sonore ? Though I bet the cost of parts in the above is a lot less than 600 Euros Agree regarding the cost of parts but it is maybe an alternative for people like me who are not very experienced in building a computer. Sonore is a small manufactu...

Where do I even start? Windows? Linux? If I use Linux, will it be easy to move the files from my Qnap..? I have a 320 with Windows already installed, so it would be the easiest way to move forward... *help* Does Volumio not have Samba built-in .I've been told that if you store files or plug in a ha...

Interested depending on shipping costs to the US Why would shipping cost put you off !!?? I would expect because sometimes people like to charge as much or more for shipping as the cost of the product itself. Is it not all about the end product rather than being concerned about a vendors business p...

tokenbrit wrote:Interested depending on shipping costs to the US

Why would shipping cost put you off !!??