I think there's a lot to be said for the concept of Linn's Network Player.
And Linn's Kazoo is the result of decades of work. It works very well indeed.
If I think about my situation, between my DAC and server I have 5 boxes (including three PSUs). That means lots of cables and rack space.
Annoyingly Roon only supports Tidal when I prefer to use Qobuz for a number of reasons. My Totaldac d1 server will play Qobuz but this is though LMS/iPeng, and switching to this from Roon generally takes ages as I have to communicate with the Cubox computer inside the d1 server via a web interface and it can be very slow. Then even once LMS is activated, iPeng can take a while to work. It can be clunky and confusing.
The result of all this is that I don't like switching much between the 2.
Kazoo on the other hand integrates both Tidal and Qobuz, not to mention other services.
Guillaume
And Linn's Kazoo is the result of decades of work. It works very well indeed.
If I think about my situation, between my DAC and server I have 5 boxes (including three PSUs). That means lots of cables and rack space.
Annoyingly Roon only supports Tidal when I prefer to use Qobuz for a number of reasons. My Totaldac d1 server will play Qobuz but this is though LMS/iPeng, and switching to this from Roon generally takes ages as I have to communicate with the Cubox computer inside the d1 server via a web interface and it can be very slow. Then even once LMS is activated, iPeng can take a while to work. It can be clunky and confusing.
The result of all this is that I don't like switching much between the 2.
Kazoo on the other hand integrates both Tidal and Qobuz, not to mention other services.
Guillaume
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