Stream to Playback Devices with Different Capabilities

[timster]

It's a tricky one. I have Linn, Denon and a Roberts and have had similar issues. The only solution I found is to have different servers. I have Minimserver as my main one, but also Asset which has multiple-instance capability. My library is all flac with a few mp3/m4a, so I have one Asset that transcodes everything to WAV 16-bit. This doesn't help with the 44.1kHz limitation though - you would have to downsample as well (but Asset only downsamples to 48 - maybe Minim can do 44.1, I don't know).

In your case you could have say, Minim (for your Linn), and then Asset-NAIM, Asset-Roberts, Asset-Samsung (or something). I think you can have multiple Minims too but only on a NAS with Containers (or somesuch I think). You would probably need a decent spec NAS anyway if you want multiple servers running.
Just a thought.