Formed in 2012, Lumin has been in the high-end streamer market longer than most, and that experience shines through in the new U2 Mini network transport. It’s a slick and stable performer that could be perfect for those with a digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) in their system but have yet to get into streaming.
Before we go any further, let us clarify what a network transport is. Sometimes called a network bridge or even a network player, it is the component that accesses music from a NAS (Network Attached Storage) across a home network and plays files from streaming services or USB storage. In a nutshell, the transport fetches the digital music file from wherever it is and passes it to an external DAC (which then converts the digital data to an analogue signal that your amplifier can use).
