 Voor mensen zoals ik die voor de beste geluidkwaliteit gaan en niet een computer bijna een stereo willen, zijn er zogekort netwerkbruggen. Goede netwerkbruggen komen van Sonori en SOTM. In deze video een broad view over hoe ze hun producten gebruiken. Beide Sonori en SOTM ontwikkelen netwerkbruggen in verschillende kwaliteiten. Sonori heeft drie modelen die uit 640 USD uitleggen van de voeding van de voeding van de voeding tot 3295 USD door de voeding van de voeding van de voeding van de voeding. SOTM geeft twee netwerkbruggen om 450 en 1200 USD te kosten, including een simpel switchmode voeding. Deze prijzen zijn uitleggende salen. De SOTM prijzen in mijn landen zijn 540 en 1400 euro's, including VAT. De verschillende producten zijn erg aardig om extreme aardig digital audio signalen door USB Audio Class 2. Functioneerlijk, de producten van Sonori en SOTM zijn ongeveer dezelfde en zelfs de userinterface ook niet dat veel verschillend is. Of, at least, dat was het geval, als ik de Sonori micro-rendel reed twee jaar geleden gevoel. Beide worden in dezelfde code gebaseerd, maar later ontwikkelde ze verder door elkaar individueel. Ze hebben nog steeds de apps nodig voor bridge-incombing. Sinds ik een SOTM-netwerkbrug gebruik, gebruik ik dat userinterface als een simpel. Bij begrijpen van verschillende apps, de networkbruggen kunnen functioneren zoals een squeezebox, een DNLA UP&PA v-rendeler, een airplay-rendeler, een HQ player-netwerk audio-adapter of een Rune endpoint. Zoals je ziet, heeft iedere protocol zijn eigen lingo, maar in feite zijn ze allemaal dezelfde. Netwerkbruggen. Natuurlijk zijn er klare technische verschillende, resultaat in verschillende in de setup. Maar voor je als consumer, hebben ze allemaal een USB2-output gegeven om je te verbinden. Wanneer je de netwerkbrug als een squeezebox wilt gebruiken, een DNLA UP&PA v-rendeler, een Rune endpoint of een van de andere modes, is het naar je. Naar de hardware-setup is geïnteresseerd, is er een klein verschil. Dus laten we beginnen daar. First you need a computer, a laptop or desktop, running an OS supported by the mode you want to use. In almost all cases mentioned here, either Windows, macOS and Linux will do. The computer can be placed elsewhere in the house, the study for instance, and is connected to the router, preferably using a network cable. The router usually is placed where the provider's cable enters the house. Another network cable is then connected between the router and the network bridge. A USB2 cable makes the connection to the digital to analog converter that in turn is connected to your stereo. Sometimes the digital to analog converter is integrated in the amplifier or receiver. Instead of a computer, you could often use a network-attached storage device, NAS for short, that runs the server software of the system of choice. If you have active loudspeakers, loudspeakers that have built-in amplifiers, the outputs of the digital to analog converter are connected directly to the speakers using RCA or XLR cables. Unless the active speakers has a USB input, then the network bridge is connected directly to one of the speakers using a USB cable or via an interface box that came with the speakers, again using USB. Then it is time to choose the system software of choice. Let's look at them one by one. The squeezebox has been very popular since the introduction in 2003, and despite Logitech killed the products in 2012, many players are still around and many users are happy with the user interface. It also is popular amongst users of Raspberry Pi based network bridges. The SOtM en Sonore products are for those that want to stay in the squeezebox environment but want clearly higher sound quality. An advantage is that Logitech has promised to maintain the server program that is needed to use the squeezeboxes and squeezebox emulators, like the products mentioned here. It is called Logitech Media Server, LMS for short, and can be downloaded for free from mysqueezebox.com after registration. Computer demands are quite modest. LMS even runs on NASs, like those from Synology and QNAP. These often come with a link to LMS, so installation is a breeze. But when your music catalog is large, say over a thousand CDs, a beefier NAS might be advisable to keep the browsing speed acceptable. Now you have to set the network bridge to function as a squeezebox. You do this using your computer. Start your browser, like Internet Explorer, Edge, Safari or Google Chrome, and type www.sonicorbitor.com for the Sonore products, or unasu.local for the SOtM products. The user interface opens and you simply click the squeezelight icon. Squeezelight is the squeezebox emulation app that turns the network bridge into a squeezebox. To play music, you run LMS on your computer or NAS, follow the instructions on the screen and you're set. Choosing music to play can be done on the computer, tablet or smartphone, using the browser by typing the IP address of the computer or NAS that runs LMS, followed by a colon and 9000. If more media servers are present on your network, LMS might need to use a higher port number than 9000, like 9001 or higher. There are also apps for Android and iOS to control LMS. DLNA and UPNPAV are virtually identical and the setup is largely the same as with the squeezebox. There needs to be a DLNA or UPNPAV server program running on the computer or NAS. If music is the most important to you, you might want to install Minim Server, for that is optimized for music. Most other DLNA or UPNPAV server programs will function too, but often with less audio specific metadata. Once the DLNA or UPNPAV server is installed, it will automatically detect compatible renderers like the Sonori and SODM products discussed here, provided you have activated the MPD and DLNA app in the user interface, as described earlier for the squeezebox. Now you need a DLNA or UPNPAV app on your smartphone, tablet or computer. I use Glider on iOS. It's not free, but it won't break the bank either. You can also use an app that can control MPD, MusicPlayer Demon, the Linux version of the media player. By the way, music apps like J-River Media Center and Audivana Plus 3 will play to a DLNA or UPNPAV network bridge too. These programs offer DSP functions like upsampling and room correction and can send the process signal to the network bridge. For people using iTunes, iPhones and iPads, Apple's streaming protocol called AirPlay might be attractive. Activating SharePoint on the network bridges of either brand will make them AirPlay stations. Simply selecting the network bridge in question in the AirPlay menu of the computer iPhone or iPad will send the music to the network bridge. This is a very fine way to hear what the difference in sound quality is between the output of a computer, Mac or Windows and the quality network bridges, like the ones mentioned here. HQPlayer is a specialist player that offers upsampling, convolution and other digital signal processing that is considered to be of very high quality. It also works with Rune and Musso as user interface en reportedly is the way to do room correction. It has its own protocol to communicate with network bridges. Like with the other protocols, you simply click HQPlayerNAA to have the network bridge start in this mode. By the way, NAA stands for Network Audio Adapter, another word for Network Bridge. If you want to use HQPlayer, you do need a relatively powerful computer that will preferably work with NVIDIA CUDA for DSP functions. Running HQPlayer on a NAS is no option. You can store your music files on a NAS and have only HQPlayer running on a computer. I have reported extensively on Rune since for me it is the multi room music cataloging and playing software. Most of my colleagues use it too, like many manufacturers and distributors on shows. See my playlist on Rune for a number of videos on Rune. Like HQPlayer, Rune needs to run on a sufficiently powerful computer. Minimum demands are an Intel i3 processor, 8 gig of RAM and an SSD system disk. Music should be stored on another drive or on a NAS. As soon as you have started the Rune app on the network bridge, you will see it in Rune in the settings audio menu. Give it a name and activate it. That's all. Although this is no review, it might be handy to know what I currently think of the audio quality the reviewed models of her. I first reviewed the Sonora microRendu and was heavily impressed then. Next I reviewed the SOTM-SMS-200, the silver base model. To find it only a tad better than the microRendu. Then the SOTM-SMS-200 Ultra came out and I must say that it brought network audio to a whole new level. That was again slightly improved when the Neo version came out. I did not review other models, so there is no point in asking my opinion on those. It also appears that the microRendu has been updated over a year ago. The models I did review were powered by SBooster BOTW PMP Eco Power Supplies. Devices of this level should not be used with 8 euros costing Switch Mode Power Supplies. If with the SMS-200 the price of the SBooster is too steep go for the iFi i-Power. That is a Switch Mode Power Supply done well. See my reviews of the power supplies. In the meantime, interesting new products of all kinds are on their way. So subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you know when new videos are released. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up. Many thanks to all that support this channel financially. 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