Lumin X1 Flagship DSD512 MQA Roon Ready Network Player

[MusicFidelity (Guy)]

@wklie

This is why we also have the Lumin L1 library, available in 2TB or 5TB configurations. It is meant for users who do not wish to use a NAS. Copying music files to L1 HDD is done via USB copy, which is easy.

I normally copy or backup music files from my PC to my NAS drives via LAN (1Gbps, typically speed hover around 80 to 100MB/s, which is pretty fast) I use my PC to do download purchased albums and do some editing on music tracks before sending to my NAS. I don’t use USB copy as it is very troublesome. If you want to backup large files, sending across high speed LAN (1Gbps) is still the fastest and easy to do it. NAS provides one important feature not found L1-HDD, the ability to provide redundancy with extra hard disk in case it fails.

@wklie

(Note: L1 library is not accessible by Roon for now, although this may be enhanced in the future.)

There’s are discussion in the thread about why Roon doesn’t support UPnP in the first place. I Guess if you support SMB feature into L1-HDD, Roon will definitely able to access it making more attractive for Roon users. Below is one of thread regarding why Roon doesn’t support UPnP for now.

Does Roon Support UPNP Streaming Devices?

UPnP AV is one of the oldest streaming audio standards still in use and it is showing its age. Complicating the issue is the fact that the UPnP standard is pretty loose. The effort required to support one device may be substantially different from the effort required to support the next if they implement different optional subsets of the standard. Most UPnP devices really want to have direct access to seekable, random-access media files. Many of the features we support, such as streaming conten…