{"product_id":"lumin-u1-mini-high-resolution-streaming-platform-w-s-booster-power-supply","title":"Lumin U1 Mini - High Resolution Streaming Platform w\/S-Booster Power Supply","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce you start playing an album, you won’t fail to be impressed by the sound quality from the \u003cstrong\u003eLumin U1 Mini\u003c\/strong\u003e. Connecting a DAC is made pretty easy, because as you should be able to see from the photo of the Lumin U1 Mini’s rear panel, there’s a sextet of them to choose between: AES\/EBU, BNC, RCA, Optical, and two USB.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe U1 Mini can connect directly to Spotify and supports Tidal but and is also Roon Ready and supports MQA from TIDAL and Qobuz... and in high-res too, if that’s what you’d prefer. Another feature of the Lumin U1 Mini (though actually, it’s a feature that’s now available for all Lumin products) is that you can now control volume using an innovative new digital volume adjustment algorithm called Leedh Processing that was developed by French designer Gilles Millot, of Acoustical Beauty. Leedh Processing allows volume control in the digital domain, prior to conversion to analogue, without any of the drawbacks that plague other digital volume controls. Gilles claims that his Leedh Processing algorithm modifies the digital signal amplitude exactly, without any changes to its shape, and with absolutely no loss of information, plus it also uses whole number volume values to maintain audio information integrity during subsequent digital-to-analogue conversion. But if you’re old-school, and would prefer to control volume via analogue means, you can switch the Leedh Processing off: Lumin doesn’t force it on you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn order to enable super-smooth scrolling through your music library, the Lumin App caches all your album art on your device. So the larger your music library, the more memory space you’ll need, but the upside of this memory consumption is that your album art will pop-up on-screen instantly. Also, you can have up to forty images on-screen, which is great for quickly finding an album whose name you can’t quite put your finger on.And if you can’t visually deal with 40 images on-screen at the same time, you can adjust the actual number that will be displayed during scrolling all the way down to just the one if you wish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lumin App is fantastically intuitive and easy to use, which is just as well, because there is no manual for it, nor is there one for the Lumin U1 Mini itself. Despite this ease of installation, and ease of use, I’d personally still like to have manuals for both please. But perhaps now it’s me that’s being too old-school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBasically, there isn’t much that you can’t do with the Lumin App. You can arrange your music library by album title, track title, artist, composer, genre, and lots more. You can even order your library by the date and time you added the particular piece of music if you want. You can also use the app to edit track or album information. The U1 Mini was absolutely ruthless in exposing the differences in sonic quality between the keyboard cellos and Dan Cassidy’s live violin. But the bass… oh the bass! The Lumin U1 Mini reproduced the very deepest organ notes pitch-perfectly and with true authority. Further up in the spectrum I found the sound of kick-drum was similarly impressive, always hearing an instant transient, with no pre-echo, and the sound never lasted longer than the strike. I assessed the tonal quality of the bass and low mids using cello works, mostly Bach’s Cello Suites, which I own as performed by both Pablo Casals and Yo Yo Ma.\u0026amp;nbsp;The Lumin U1 Mini painted both artists in their best light, but at the same time allowed me to easily differentiate between them, so I was always able to instantly recognize which of the two was playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd in the S-Booster off-board power supply and you are now able to dig deeper into the music with the absolute blackest black background experienced with any streaming platform. For $1,399.00 there is NO stand alone streaming option able to perform at this level. Not available!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLumin U1 Mini Streaming Platform, w\/S-Booster off board power supply: $1,399.00 plus shipping and sales tax when applicable\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt Hill Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43274272505923,"sku":null,"price":1399.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2197\/6387\/files\/PhotoMay122026_15337PM.jpg?v=1778860599","url":"https:\/\/holthill.com\/products\/lumin-u1-mini-high-resolution-streaming-platform-w-s-booster-power-supply","provider":"Holt Hill Audio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}