Music centre.........for today

[Crackie]

This might be of interest to some PHers who fancy treating themselves to a Christmas present. After years of using a laptop as digital source for my Hi-Fi I changed to a Novafidelity X12 a couple of months ago; thoughts so far........

PROS....fairly easy to set up, quiet 2TB hard drive ( 5200 CDs stored as FLAC ), great input / output flexibility & connectivity including a volume controllable digital output. 60w Texas Instruments class D amplifier stage. Line input allows easy archiving of vinyl; easy to download and asign artwork to the vinyl too. Hi-rez recordable internet radio. 3 USB ins

CONS....It isn't Wi-Fi straight out of the box....... annoyingly you need to buy a dongle. Headphone output is useful but quality lags the pre-amp and speaker outputs. Colour display is just about as big as it can be for the size of the enclosure but an HDMI out would be useful...to feed a bigger display.

http://www.novafidelity.co.uk/media-coverage/2015/...

I've been using the pre-amp to optically feed a digital crossover and I'm very impressed with it.

No association with the company I just think its a great piece of kit that might be an ideal solution for some on PH.....

Edited by Crackie on Monday 14th December 02:59

[Driller]

Or use Spotify and this:

https://gramofon.com

Only €60 and does wifi and ethernet out of the box

[Crackie]

Driller said:

Or use Spotify and this:

https://gramofon.com

Only €60 and does wifi and ethernet out of the box

Looks like a good streaming solution but it doesn't have the flexibility I was looking for. I'd miss the hard drive server, digital pre amp, ability to drive speakers and run multiple systems /rooms too.

[Flip Martian]

Can you load in your own FLACs? Say via wireless network or a USB stick, do you know? I read the review but I couldn't see it there. I've already ripped and tagged my CD collection and really can't face doing it again.

[Crackie]

Flip Martian said:

Can you load in your own FLACs? Say via wireless network or a USB stick, do you know? I read the review but I couldn't see it there. I've already ripped and tagged my CD collection and really can't face doing it again.

Manual says yes no problem but I've not tried that myself yet. Importing is simple via any of the various USBs and the company advocates ripping to FLAC so, I think so. Probably best to ask them directly to be sure though.

Edited by Crackie on Thursday 17th December 01:42

[Flip Martian]

Crackie said:

Manual says yes no problem but I've not tried that myself yet. Importing is simple via any of the various USBs and the company advocates ripping to FLAC so, I think so. Probably best to ask them directly to be sure though.

Edited by Crackie on Thursday 17th December 01:42

Ta for that, will investigate further.