Do you have a perfect digital marriage?


Please share with others if you have a perfect digital marriage. 

Do you have a streamer (brand and Model) that you have paired with a DAC (brand and model) that has created a blissful marriage creating the best harmony you have heard?

What are the aspects of the sound you really like?

For example  HiFi Rose RX RS130 streamer fed by fiber optic ethernet connected I2S to Denafrips Pontus II, 12th Anniversary DAC.

Organic, clean, musical, great separation of instruments, dynamic

How's you marriage going?

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AT&T fiber optic internet w/ upgraded router => audioquest Pearl cat5 cable =>
TP Link unmanaged network switch w/ linear power supply #1 => audioquest Pearl cat5 cable =>
Mele fan-less silent miniPC running audio optimized MS OS w/ linear power supply #2 streaming Qobuz => Viborg OFC USB type 2 =>
Denafrips IRIS DDC => I2S cable =>
Denafrips Pontus II 12th => Viborg Audiocrast silver plated OFC XLR => 

Integrated tube amplifier & Klipsch Forte IIIs w/ Klipsch Reference 112 subwoofer.

Separate dedicated power line from common panel w true earth ground.

Organic, clean, holographic sound stage with detail and warmth. The sex is great, but she hasn’t learned to grocery shop or make my tee times yet.

 

Esoteric NO5 streamer/DAC fed by fiber optic ethernet from NAS into McIntosh C2300 tube preamp, MC500 SS amp, Tannoy Churchill’s 

Four streamers into one DAC. One streamer into another DAC. Same room.

Perfect.

The fidelity of each recording varies far more than the SQ of the DACs (or the streamers.)

Node router into an ENO distributed through a Bright Angel to the DACs:

$2500 (US) in ’18 and $200 (Chinese) in ’21.

My Rockna Wavedream Signature and Wavedream NET are fantastic.  I've only heard a couple of digital front ends that sounded better and they were an order of magnitude more expensive.  I love vinyl, but have thought many times about going strictly digital.  On the other hand, I've had no thoughts of digital upgrades since I acquired the Rocknas.

Aurender N20 and MSB Discrete DAC. Musical, detailed, alive with a wonderful soundstage and imaging.