ReadyNAS 204 DLNA music streaming to to Denon AVR X3300W via Ethernet

[wellbuttie]

Hi all,

Model: ReadyNAS 204 Firmware: 6.8.0

Great Forum and full of useful info so many thanks for that. Firstly apologies if this has been covered in previous posts, however, I have done several searches over the last number of days and have not yet come across any topics related to this.

I have recently purchased the Denon AVR X3300W set up as follows

Denon AVR X3300W and ReadyNAS 204 are both connected via 1Gb Ethernet to my Home Network via Cat 6 / 7 cable (TP Link tl-sg1016de smart switch).

I have "Restorer" set to High on the Amp.
When playing Internet Radio directly from the Denon (181.fm The Eagle, 181.fm Awesome 80s, 181.fm 80s Hairbands) which are broadcasting at 128 kbps, the audio sounds "fuller", "thicker"and "wider" than the music streamed from my ReadyNAS (using Ready DLNA).

All audio formats stored on the NAS are either Flac 24/96, WAV 24/96, Flac 16/48, WAV 16/48, MP3 320kbps, however, despite this, all of these formats just sound "thinner" and with less "body" than the internet radio streams. (Apologies for the "layman" terms there, however, its how it sounds to me)

While I can appreciate the Internet Radio stations may apply some form of Normalisation, Compression and Pre EQ before broadcasting, am I missing a trick in the settings of the ReadyNAS that would bring the quality of my music stored on my NAS to equal or greater "perceived quality" that these radio streams. Or would there be some sort of App that can be applied to the ReadyNAS to emulate the enhancements applied to my stored music before streaming directly to the Denon AVR Amp.

Many thanks in Advance,

Steve

[StephenB]

ReadyDLNA just streams the bits on the disk to the Denon.   It doesn't decode them or process them - it just transports them.

So there no settings on the NAS, only what's built into the Denon.