It’s a dead cert guarantee the library will keep growing! Over the last year or so I’ve been increasingly choosing higher definition content. About 90% of the material is FLAC with about 10% “hi def” (greater than 44.1/16). My music library is approximately 2Tb, around 3,000 “albums” with another 2,000 CDs to rip plus a reasonably large collection of concerts etc. It plays tunes from a UPnP server or via Internet stream and includes a mid range DAC and a few other useful functions. It competes with the Denon and Marantz units in the same price range. There are a number of areas where features and spec are compromised due to the price. Definitely at the lower end of the market at £400, “better” than a Squeezebox or Sonos but nowhere close to a Linn. Its a simple, cheap network music player. With that little rant out of the way a little recap of what the NP30 is all about. If you want a real mag get Tone Audio, but it would be much better to actually listen to the thing in question. Never mind the fact they only listened for an hour anyway (if that) believe it or not those two examples were from a review of a USB cable!!! Those magazines are as much use as a chocolate fireguard. You know these folks have a Dilbert “Hi-Fi” hogwash generator. That friends is 100% unadulterated bullshit.
ASSET UPNP DLNA SERVER WHS UPDATE
A further firmware update was released on the 19th July, which provides gapless playback, a pre-amp mode and other minor fixes.Īctually before I dive in I will take this opportunity to sardonically pour scorn and derision on “Hi-Fi” rag reviews which after talking about the industrial design of some gear then claptrap with phrases such as “helped the sound retain cohesion and musicality” or “slightly thin and lacking in body”. After a couple of months running this version I have added additional comments to the review below. A few weeks after I posted this review, Cambridge Audio shipped a significant firmware update. Whilst I posted a few thoughts shortly after my purchase, many folks have asked me about it since and so here is a more considered review of the Cambridge Audio Sonata NP30 after about six months of real use. Back in July last year I finally, after much procrastination, plumped for a new tune streamer.
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