Given I seem to have been allocated a lot of low impact free time I have taken the opportunity to digitise my CD collection and make it available for streaming across all devices, I did this years ago but due to disk space and tech limitations at the time didn't go lossless format.
Easy bit setting up a decent NAS with both space, performance and a decent disc failover, hard bit (time wise) rescanning all my CDs. All mobile device access to the NAS was easy but looking for a streamer for the Hi-Fi looked like it was going to cost a fortune and be hard to get a decent device here. However a few chats with some Hi-Fi friends kept pointing me to a cheap but apparently high quality device that would stream from the NAS to the Hi-Fi. The device is no longer in production but a bit of searching on the specialist sites threw one up and it was bought and shipped my Le Mans buddy in the UK who is a big HiFi geek. He set it up on his system replacing his own Naim NDX 2 and he has been blown away, my little streamer has none of the fancy displays, its all controlled by an App, but he reckons the sound is as good has Naim if not better and at a tenth of the price. Just need to get him to pack it back up and send it over so I hear for myself.
