Lumin X1 latest Review like we have been saying




For many years we have been touting the Lumin products as being one of the best sounding and best implimented paths to creating a fantastic sound in your system.

We sought to be a Lumin dealer after the A1 came out and pretty much got rave reviews as being the best sounding streamer out there, each successive product was better the new T2 is amazing at its price point and challenges $7k streamer/dacs/

The lastest review https://hometheaterreview.com/lumin-x1-network-player-reviewed/

sums up Lumins history and even offers a comparison of the X1 vs the Total Dac, and DCS and the Aqua Formula, we actually have tested the upgraded Formula V2 with the Statement and it does sound even bettter.
 
Summation the best sound the reviewer ever accheived was with the X1.

We sell some of the worlds best dacs, including T+A, Light Harmonic, Aqua Hif, Naim, Mytek, Bricasti, and with the X1 you have to spend $30-50k to better the X1, it is nice to see that other people are agreeing with exactly what we have been saying all along.

If you are looking for the best sound for the money, rock solid reliability, a fantastic feature set, Tidal, Qbouz, Spotify, Apple Airplay to play Youtube or Soundcloud, OTA upgrades, Roon endpoint, full Mqua, DSD and High data rate upsampling, upconversion and playability, solid build quality, built in volume control, the Lumin products are hard to beat.



Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Lumin dealers
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@grahamsphillips Your 20 year old Bryston will sound a little more bright than the latest cubed series from Bryston.

@rossb Thanks for the post. I was wondering how the Chord stacks up against the Lumin. That Fiber optic input is enticing.

I want to do a comparison of the Denafrips Terminator and the Lumin X1.
Audiophiles, got to laugh sometimes.

@redphu72 You are interested in the same thing as me. I tied the knot with the Sonore rendu's I think they are great and make me with my tech  background happy to use them.

I imagine you have read the review by Chris Connaker about the Lumin X1 and the Fibre input. He uses a cool looking network switch from 

Ubiquiti
https://www.ui.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-8-150w/

Lumin X1 Review
https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/reviews/lumin-x1-review-r860/ 

It puzzles me why other DAC manufacturers do not have Fibre Optic inputs. Only one I am aware of is the Lumin X1.

BTW - see this is a conversation by interested parties on the Lumin X1. 

@maxwave I would spend $200 and buy the Ubiquiti network switch listed in my above post. The second link for the Lumin X1 review has all the components that the reviewer used to go Fibre to his X1. It should cost you about $300-$400 for everything.

You have some other options that do not require tech savy, such as the SystemOptique from Sonore. They will get your RJ45 ethernet to Fibre so you can connect to the X1. I believe the X1 is a Roon Ready endpoint. 

Maybe give the Audio Doctor a call on this, he seems to be aware of how to get Fibre from your network into the X1.
It is hard to do a write up about the pros and cons of ROON because ROON is a dynamic software system. In the sense that it is continually being updated with new features. I have been a lifetime member even before they released version 1.0 and I have seen all the new features that have been added. The best place to learn about ROON is not here but in the ROON forum.

https://community.roonlabs.com/

For example, 2 recent additions are making my lifetime membership a homerun. One is the music discovery feature that was recently added. MP3 streaming services have had this before (Pandora, Apple, etc..) but ROON did not. I have both Qobuz and Tidal and my ROON clients discovery feature has recently made me add about 30 new albums. My recent favorite being Betty Davis, the female James Brown or is James Brown the male Betty Davis. 

The second relatively new feature in ROON is the Convolution engine that will allow me to do DSP WITHOUT any new audio hardware. That is gold to me. 

ROON is evolving and for me a gorgeous audio client with both great reliability and features.
Thanks for the feedback. The Lumin X1 will be my plan B if I cannot get the slightly more expensive Mola Mola Makua w/DAC option.

I have a Lumin X1 but use wired. However, I think the beauty of the X1 streamer is that it should not matter if you use WiFi before the  Fibre Optical.

For your situation getting a network switch with both RJ45 and Fibre Optical options would solve the problem. Take the Wifi RJ45 output to the new switch and then take Fibre from that switch to the X1. If your Wifi signal is reliable then this should work fine.

My view is that it does not matter what is BEFORE the Fibre Optical cable.