Comments on: From Digital to Digital: Converting a Library from Spinning Discs to Network Based Audio with the Bricasti Design M1 Network Player https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/bricasti-design-m1-network-player/ A Creative Forum for the Audio Arts Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Frank Smith https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/bricasti-design-m1-network-player/#comment-2043 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:38:00 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=19804#comment-2043 In reply to Mzisserson.

Hello Michael,
I actually just recently did a refit of my entire Audio system and I just dropped off my Bricasti M1SE yesterday with Brain and Joe at Bricasti and am finally getting my Ethernet media player upgrade installed. I wrote this last night but forget to send.

I’m excited. My microRendu was so good I wasn’t in a hurry. I have all of the upgraded linear power supplies to optimize it so things were great. Well I sent in M1SE for the upgrade and am super excited to get it back next Monday or Tuesday Feb 2018. I did all of the recommendations to optimize any Ethernet player. I got AudioQuest Vodka Ethernet Cables, I purchased a separate Netgear GS108 Ethernet switch and a Breeze Audio 12v Linear Power Supply to Power it. I own the Uptone Audio JS-2 Linear Power Power Supply that will power 2 seperate products. I’m using it to power my FIOs Gateway Router and my mini PC. Speaking of that. I purchased a fanleas mini pc that accepts an external 12v power source so I get to use the 2nd rail of the Uptone Audio JS-2 Linear power Supply. This is key because with my Netgear ethernet switch and my FiOs router and my fanless PC all are run with clean Linear Power Supplies and no wall warts SMPS Power Supplies. I can not recommend this enough to any and everyone. I learned all this on the online forums and am sharing here to help anyone that wants to make their Ethernet player MUCH MUCH better. There is more. Running a Linear Power Supply to run your fanless mini PC is a big help but there is more. You want a processor that is powerful enough to run JRiver but just powerful enough and one that uses he messy amount of power. This is key. A great one now everyone is using is a Intel Celeron J1900 - forget the I5 or I7 they draw too much power and Audio doesn’t need that power. This one is perfect. Also, only 8 gig of Ram, you don’t need anymore and don’t want the increased power requirements. Also, a solid state hard drive for the operating system and program files like 120GB SSD. Fanless is no noise and you are good. You can get this set up on Amazon for under $300 and you will need Windows 10 and then download and buy Fidelizer to turn off many processes you don’t need for Audio. For music Storage get a USB external HDD with 3 or 4 TB or an many as you want and can get under $200 but also here you are going to spend a littte money. Not a lot but trust me it’s worth it. You already chose the perfect mini PC and ordered with best low power items perfect for JRiver and to do any upscale or DSP you want to use. This mini PC is real special because you are running it with a clean linear power supply - I recommend Uptone Audio JS-2 to run your mini PC and Ethernet router. The key now is to have Chrystal clear power to your music storage. So here is what you do. Forget NSA and all that stuff. Do this. Buy 5v bus powered USB HDD external hard drive. It doesn’t have to be SSD. Now the 5v bus powered means it’s powered by the USB cable from the PC’s USB socket. So here you buy your external hard drive and you buy an Uptone Audio ISO Regen and an Uptone Audio LPS-1 power supply. So you plug your USB cable into your mini PC USB socket then to the this ISO Regen and then another USB cable comes out the other side of the USB Regen and into the External Hard drive. You use the LPS-1 to power the ISO Regen and the ISO Regen cuts the power from the computer to the external hard drive and replaces the PC power with that from the LPS-1. Now the music coming off external hard drive is pristine and the mini PC Power is super clean and Ethernet switch is clean and router is clean and all of that add up to a gigantic lowering of the noise floor and takes the great Bricasti and removes all the grunge and now you are talking about one of the best digital sources on the planet at any price. It will eat up $30k SACD players all day. Run neck and neck with a $50k DCS Stack because all the limitating factors were removed and the player will flourish. Hope this helps any and all Ethernet player folks because this is the straight legit truth right here... legit cost no object performance for pennies on the dollar.

]]> By: Mzisserson https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/bricasti-design-m1-network-player/#comment-1817 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:18:00 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=19804#comment-1817 In reply to Frank Smith.

Greetings Frank,
Thanks for the kind words. The Network Player is a great option, and it seems like it will he a nice way to simplify for you.

Warmest,
Michael

]]> By: Frank Smith https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/bricasti-design-m1-network-player/#comment-1814 Sat, 05 Aug 2017 20:17:00 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=19804#comment-1814 Thank you for the great review. I own the M1SE and use both Auralic Aries Femto & microRendu w/ Uptone LPS-1 & JS-2 Linear Power Supplies and I am calling Brian to get my Network Player upgrade. Hopefully I can sell or trade my other hardware with this upgrade...

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