What a bargain: Lumin’s smart all-in-one package combines streaming, a DAC with all the bells and whistles and a more than usable preamp in an extremely slim housing.

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Just like its bigger brother, P1 Mini is designed to be used as a streamer, a DAC, a pre-amplifier or all three!

With 5 analogue and digital inputs, a linear power supply and many other components taken from flagship players, LUMIN P1 Mini packs incredible versatility and value into its new slim chassis.

Main features

  • Five inputs including USB, HDMI, SPDIF and Analogue

  • HDMI with stereo input + AV Passthrough & ARC

  • Dual DAC ES9028PRO

  • DSD512 & PCM384

  • Femto Clock System with precision FPGA distribution

  • New internal toroidal linear power supply

  • Dual Network with Optical Fibre Network support

  • Leedh Processing lossless volume control

P1 Mini Specification highlights

  • Network playback:

    • Up to DSD512

    • Up to 384 kHz, 16–32-bit, Stereo

    • MQA Full Decoding

  • Upsampling rates & bit depths:

    • DSD256 upsampling option for all files

    • PCM 384kHz upsampling option for all files

  • Digital Input:

    • USB:

      • USB Audio Class 2 Compatible

      • WINDOWS 10 (Release 1703 or above) / Mac OSX or above

      • DoP 128 support

      • PCM 44.1–384 kHz, 16 / 32-bit, Stereo

    • OPTICAL/SPDIF:

      • PCM 44.1 kHz–192 kHz, 16–24-bit

      • DSD64 (DoP64, DSD over PCM)

    • HDMI:

      • PCM 2.0 Audio support

      • 4K Video Passthrough

  • Digital Output:

    • USB:

      • Native DSD512 support

      • PCM 44.1–384 kHz, 16–32-bit, Stereo

    • BNC SPDIF:

      • PCM 44.1 kHz–192 kHz, 16–24-bit

      • DSD64 (DoP64, DSD over PCM)

    • HDMI:(HDMI Passthrough and ARC support)

      • PCM 2.0 Audio support

      • 4K Video Passthrough

      • ARC (Audio Return Channel) support

  • Analogue Input:

    • RCA Stereo x1

  • Analog Output:

    • Dual ESS SABRE32 ES9028Pro DAC chips

    • Fully balanced layout with high-quality components

    • Femto Clock System with precision FPGA distribution

  • Optical Network:

    • Industry-standard Gigabit SFP

    • 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet

    • Adapter may be needed for your particular switch/cables

    • Use simultaneously with RJ45 (e.g. connect one to router and one to LUMIN L1 or NAS)

  • Power Supply:

    • Internal toroidal linear

    • Low-noise linear regulator

  • Physical:

    • Finish:

      • Black anodised aluminium

      • Raw anodised aluminium

      Lumin (solid aluminium chassis):

      • 400mm (W), 314mm (D), 77mm (H), 7kg

Specification for all current-gen LUMIN streamers

  • Streaming Protocol:

    • UPnP AV protocol with audio streaming extension (OpenHome)

    • Roon Ready

    • Qobuz Connect

    • TIDAL Connect

    • Spotify Connect

    • Flac lossless Radio stations

    • Plāys with Audirvāna

    • AirPlay-compatible

    • QPlay-compatible for QQMusic

    • Gapless Playback

    • On-Device Playlist

  • App Features:

    • Native support for TIDAL, MQA, Qobuz, KKBox and TuneIn Radio.

    • Tidal MAX and MQA icons to identify high-res music

    • Qobuz high-res icons to identify high-res music

    • Volume control

    • High-resolution artwork

    • Artwork caching

    • Search

    • Multiple tag handling

    • Composer tag support

    • Album-grouping in playlist

    • Automatic internet links to artists/album/songs

    • Saving and restoring of playlists (including Tidal and Qobuz)

  • Supported Audio File Formats:

    • DSD Lossless: DSF (DSD), DIFF (DSD), DoP (DSD)

    • PCM Lossless: FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC), WAV, AIFF

    • Compressed (lossy) Audio: MP3

    • MQA

  • Input:

    • Gigabit Ethernet Network (1000BASE-T) RJ45

    • Shared USB port can also be used for storage, flash drive, USB hard disk (Single-partition FAT32, exFAT and NTFS only)

  • Analogue Audio Outputs:

    • XLR balanced, 6Vrms, pin 2 Hot

    • RCA unbalanced, 3Vrms

  • Supported Control Devices:

    • Apple devices. iOS 11.0 or later (List of supported devices)

    • Android devices. Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or later required

    • Apple Silicon. macOS 11 or later. (Download the iOS App from the iOS App Store)

    • Chromebook. Google Play Store required.

  • Other:

    • Leedh Processing lossless digital volume control

    • Programme of Continuous Development – Firmware-upgradable for further features and enhancements

What a bargain: Lumin’s smart all-in-one package combines streaming, a DAC with all the bells and whistles and a more than usable preamp in an extremely slim housing.

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