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What do I do with this Auralic?

I recently and very impulsively purchased a display model of an Auralic Vega G2 (unused but reboxed) in a liquidationsale for $600. Now I have heard of Auralic and that they make great products but I am a novice in digital music. The Vega is easy to setup as a streamer and the DS Lightning control app is great. What is even better is the sound, Tidal and even Spotify sound great. It really is superb (to my old ears anyway).

My problem is I can't figure out how to play all my music stored on my NAS. About all I do know is that my NAS is too old and not powerful enough to play via HS USB. Has anyone on here used one of these and how. I have this thing about Roon and paying $595 or whatever for a licence and even then I still need something to store the music files.

A high spec NAS would work but I am not keen on this as it would need to be in the listening room. Or I could use it as a $600 paperweight!!! Any good ideas please?
shamus2211

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oldhvymec
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They talk about the USB driver download. Have you read the manuel?
It has a lot of information, like the software it will work with. The USB file needed, how good their product is, you know the regular mumbo-jumbo!

If your source is to slow,  it's best to COPY from there to a new media. Sounds so easy. LOL  So your using a storage device, that is USB 1.0
(RAID) storage, and too slow to stream from?
The music file format is what you need to know.
I would move the files (if they are compatible) to the faster device.

600.00 paper weight?  They were over 3,000.00, according to review information.

I'll keep looking

Regards

oldhvymec
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I see how it works now it's like the one I have. I use Cocktail, same specs,  It's a server also, if you add an internal drive, I added SSD to mine. SSD/or/HD, will work, for you also. They have a good silver disk spinner for sure.

You need to see if the older raid setup can be copied, NOT MOVED.
Still have a backup, ay?
You'll have a newer, server with all the goodies.. Volume control, balance options, balanced outputs.
Nice piece, really. Just a little teckie, and really not the best documentation.

Regards
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