For as long as 8 years I believe, LUMIN (in Hong Kong) have been producing 'network players'.

The LUMIN D2 is their most affordable music streamer with DAC - £1845 / NZ$3600(?)

What does this thing do?

- Network or Internet music streamer
- Native support for TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify, AirPlay-compatible.
- Roon, Spotify Connect compatible.
- Plays all High-Res formats from MQA. DSD (to DSD128 5.6MHz), PCM, FLAC, WAV, AIFF.
- Wolfson WM8741 DAC chips, 1 per channel.
- Fully balanced analogue output stage with XLR outputs (or RCA unbalanced).
- Ethernet or USB digital inputs.
- LUMIN App with iOS or Android support.
- LEEDH Processing 'lossless' digital volume control (bypassable when connecting to an external preamplifier).
- Internal auto-ranging 100-240VAC PSU.






HI-FI NEWS (6 Aug 2020) have just given it their 'Hi-Fi News Outstanding Product' Award.

" a fine sound, with warmth and generosity combined with sweetness in the treble and an entirely natural-sounding midband, making it easy to enjoy and extremely involving "

"...impressive given the price.... getting the listener into the heart of the music.... If you want the impression of real live musicians plonked in the room in front of you, the D2 delivers. "


LUMIN is represented in NZ by AUDIONUT.

See also - LUMIN music streamer/network players now available in NZ

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WITCHDOCTOR's Richard Varey (May 2019) was impressed too:


"...relaxed, clean, and full-bodied.... crisp, tonally realistic image had a warm and natural musicality. With plenty of texture and space.... fresh, lively and smooth, and a very refined, impactful and enjoyable sound image on everything. "


" I don’t know of a similar device that is this well built, fully featured, and well conceptualised at this price.... a high-performance, no-nonsense music file player. "

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