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Lumin instead provides an app that you’ll need to load onto either an Apple iPad or iPhone, or onto an Android device (preferably a tablet, because the larger screen size makes control easier). The U1 Mini doesn’t come with any form of hardware controller. If you do this, you should have a Media Server enabled, and if you’re using a Lumin U1 Mini, I’d recommend using one called MinimServer, not because it’s particularly good (though it certainly is this) but because Lumin uses it to develop its software and therefore it supports all the features of the U1 Mini.Īs for the NAS drive itself, there are lots of very good ones available but again I’d recommend you use one made by either QNAP or Synology, firstly because MinimServer provides excellent installation support for both these brands, but also because Lumin itself is able to provide far more extensive and detailed on-line technical support when you use either of these two brands. If you don’t use one of the many streaming music services available (Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, etc) I’d recommend you store your music on a dedicated Network Attached Storage device (NAS). So you still need to use an external DAC to convert that signal to analogue, then an amplifier and speakers to reproduce it in your listening room. Just in case you were wondering, a ‘Network Music Player’ (or an ‘Audiophile Network Music Player’, as Lumin calls the U1 Mini) is a device that finds music that’s stored on your Home Network or available from a streaming internet service via your Home Network and converts it to a digital signal.

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The best music streamers on the market right now: upgrade to a wireless system.That said, it still looks very classy… but it’s clearly not the same standard as Lumin’s premium chassis. And of course the chassis itself is also different, because whereas the full-sized U1 has Lumin’s ‘classic’ chassis, which is CNC-routed out of solid aluminium, the chassis of the U1 Mini is simply a sheet of aluminium that’s been folded and then anodised (in either silver or black).