Help Shape Fosi Audio’s First Streamer — We Value Your Input

[sergeauckland]

Two things any streamer MUST support is BBC Sounds and the server must be Open Source such that it never goes obsolete as new protocols emerge.

 

[Middle Earth]

@Fosi Audio
USB out requirement for me
Use 4Stream for streaming software and App
We know that 4Stream is a great place to start as WiiM took it and evolved it but just plain 4Stream would be fine

 

[ViperDom]

Let's talk Digital Volume DISPLAY:
Verifying the current sound level prior to hitting play is very important to me. I have a prefered starting level for TV, a bit higher for Movies, and a variety of preference for Music depending on the material. Also, It's impressive when you know the precise level for a certain track that you want to demo/show off for guests so that the opening notes/vocals present themselves as intended.
And finally, If my kids are watching cartoons and i yell turn it down i don't want to go back & forth on what is enough. Just say turn it down to 33 and they comply.

 

[samysound]

@Fosi Audio
dual subwoofer outputs
room correction
HDMI input with dolby digital decoding and downsampling to 2.1 integration with a TV

 

[xanalog]

I could understand -from the business aspect- adding a streaming device to your catalog in addition to your newly released ZP3 [RCA+XLR] preAmp.

I will hold out , until FOSI asks me to 'help shape' a balanced ADC, which also happens to feature built-in digital I/O + streaming.
Oh yes, and under $350.

If anyone can do it, FOSI already has all the building blocks and the know-how.

 

[Rocky Maine]

Ethernet.

 

[T&T]

Like Wiim mini with XLR outputs, no DAC and bigger screen than Wiim product 3.5 , maybe you can take the screen out a cheap tablet pc. Price around 200.00

 

[KLi]

It should stream local files, on a hard drive or similar memory, for those like me not having a subscription. A screen would be nice too for the cover art.

 

[Carlton80@0]

a proper streamer should have enough digital outputs to support most DAC inputs. IE coax, toslink and USB. Also the ability to choose between airPlay 1 and airPlay 2.

 

[TimA]

I filled it out, nice to see a company that values user input. IMO hifi buyers are mainly buying streamers because they don't trust integrated streaming solutions to be supported for the life of the product - see

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/1k7607a/jbl_sa750_obsolete_after_only_2_years

. So, software stability and reliability are #1.

Just to note that Harman did issue an update for this device and the Arcam SA30 (identical inside) a few moths ago that enables Tidal Hi-Res - the original commentator on Reddit rather belatedly acknowledged that at the bottom of the thread.

 

[anonyless]

LMS works quite well with 60000 tracks . It depends on what it runs on . I tried one of the older raspberry pi that I own that did not work .
No problems on my intel NUC . Or in the past on windows or linux I’ve had all kinds of mini servers in the past .

Now I have Roon on the NUC and a new pi for LMS .

Roon really wastes cpu cycles it must be incredibly inefficient compared to LMS

i've just installed Lyrion Server on a dedicated Pi4 4GB . it works, but the server gets stuck (for me) too many times trying to index folder names in Hebrew (plus 100% CPU load). since I have 100s of those, i guess it's not a good solution for me. other then that - the WiiM / Lyrion integration is extremely good
*my Navidrome sever doesn't have this issue, and index everything (61k songs) extremely fast