I would guess, but do not know, the Bluesound will be easier to use. Marantz NA6006 Born from the success of the award-winning ND8006, the Marantz NA6006 Streamer is the perfect choice for demanding yet price-conscious digital music lovers. Curious if anyone has heard or owned one of these and what their thoughts are? Ironically, if you can get LMS working again, setting the Flow configuration option on that UPnP/DLNA Bridge LMS plugin I mentioned earlier, can get UPnP/DLNA streamers that don't support gapless playback to play gaplessly under LMS control! Complete your digital audiophile collection with the Marantz NA6006 Network Audio Player. The ND-8006 is sized at a typical Marantz … Note that if you have an NAS, LMS is way more stable on that device.at least it has been on my QNAP running QLMS (). Stream music from Pandora, Spotify, TIDAL, Deezer and more, and listen to audio playback of DSD (2.8/5.6 … Thanks.
Most network players or streamers are just that, they … Well if your intention is to still use the Mac with the music files on the attached separate drive, then you may as well install a decent music file dedicated UPnP/DLNA media server, such as the excellent free (donations welcome) MinimServer, to use with the 7005 to get a feel for how it works if nothing else - you'd need to do the same if you did get the Marantz NA6006. The NA6006 being one of the latest Marantz HEOS supporting streamers can be controlled with its own Marantz HEOS controller app. A network connection gives you access to internet radio, Spotif圜onnect and music on your network, whether it’s stored on your laptop or a NAS drive, is an MP3, WAV or DSD file – the Marantz’s CS4398 DAC is capable of handling WAV and FLAC up to 24-bit/192kHz and 2.8/5.6MHz DSDs. The Marantz ND8006?s 6.35 mm headphone output.
Marantz NA6006 Network Audio Player, Audiophile Designed D/A Conversion, HDAM, Digital Filtering, With WiFi, Airplay 2, Bluetooth and HEOS Complete your digital audiophile collection with the Marantz NA6006 … I noticed there were some songs missing so I rescanned my library and now I can’t play anything. It is missing HEOS though, which is needed for things such as Amazon Music HD. I tried the first couple of songs on my library and it worked very well.
The Marantz has been around for awhile and should also be straight forward and most likely offer more options. However all HEOS streamers can also be used as standard UPnP/DLNA streamers, so the NA6006 … already did. I have a feeling that the Bluesound server might be more user friendly. As I said in my earlier post, I believe the problem is running LMS with Catalina 10.15.2.
As far as physical connections … Chord … But their software is clunky(and old) at best. Current ETA for the NA6006 is Dec 16th 2020** Complete your digital audiophile collection with the Marantz NA6006 … Which one offer the best sound quality? Tried using the Marantz as a streamer early on. You do not list your network/system but I you will need a server.I assume loaded on your mac device.
I can get it working sometimes and other times it looks like the software freezes. BTW, the Marantz SR7005 AVR is a network audio file player in its own right, so you shouldn't need to attach an external streamer to it, such as the Maranrz NA6005 & the Bluesound (never mind the Squeezebox Touch), in the first place.