Point of higher priced streamer?

damn... when did audio geek culture get so angry???

@thyname1,055 posts

So @rhg you fully understand those plots, but you still don’t own any streamer (just ordered a CCA from eBay), and any DAC? Hmmmm....

You guys are pathetic. And you don’t even hide it anymore. Your kin makes me throw up. Have at it

Here I quote a post from 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/chromecast-audio-sound-quality/45972/41

who reports on an actual a/b listening comparison between a Chromecast Audio with Toslink, MicroRendu and USB direct from Nucleus into a Hugo 2. It seems to support AS's assertion that "Using a well-designed Dac like the Topping D50, there is no difference at all between Toslink from Chromecast or higher fidelity sources. All the jitter is filtered out resulting in the performance of the DAC itself being the limit."

"@AndersVinberg

Ok, I did the comparison.
I have compared Chromecast Audio with Toslink, MicroRendu and USB direct from Nucleus into a Hugo 2.
I listened with headphones, the Audeze LCD-4z.

I found no differences with 96k content or with 44k content.
In fact, when using the remote to switch source on the Hugo, it switched instantaneously when going to USB (took about a second to lock onto optical), and once I had the album synced well enough that I heard no interruption or change, I had to check the color of the indicator light on the Hugo to see that I did in fact switch.
That is impressive with a $35 device.

One caveat: I did notice a bit of harshness on an EST track — the piano is a bit harsh and jangly on the beginning of Dodge the Dodo, obviously intentional because it is perfectly smooth at other points in the track, but I thought the CC made it extra harsh. Which might indicate that it has trouble with the complex high frequency tones of an abused piano. I could investigate more. And I never noticed it elsewhere.

But note that I did hear differences yesterday with the Bel Canto DAC 3, which is a fairly old device (about 2010, I guess). So this supports my standard theory that the importance of the quality of a producer depends on the sensitivity of the consumer, and the Hugo 2 is very new and brilliant..."

Also, please note that my purchase of the CA is primarily intended  to test whether I will like the features of Roon and to allow me to use Roon  in the meantime on whatever DAC/streamer system I finally decide to purchase/audition, since many new devices are not yet Roon certified.

BTW, can you please tone down the volume of insults and denigrations? 

@rhg88,

Much of the criticism comes from following statement you’ve posted without even having the opportunity to actually listen the CC and any comparison with high priced streamers in your own system, 

“it will outperform many higher-priced streamers and it will be hard to beat, at least from the performance measuring perspective.”

Good luck with your journey into digital.
“Music that doesn’t stir emotions is just Noise”

Hey @clifffff : to answer your question: since the chi-fi peddlers and paid advertisers started flooding ALL audio forums, posting under the disguise of science and “scientific measurements”. In the name of science. Objective is clear: bury the domestic audio industry to the ground, until every single person buys a chi-fi device. Just look at the attack in the name of measurements to low cost US based manufacturers like Schiit Audio.

After all, it’s really cheap to hire dime a dozen trolls from the troll factory.

So when Audio2Design posts a bazillion of posts here (and over 10,000 posts previously under the 4-5 now banned usernames), he is actually working, that’s his job.

Oh... and I know how this @rhg88 fake show is going to end: he will eventually “buy” a chi-fi DAC, likely a Topping or Matrix touted by the “science” ASR peddlers, feed it with a CCA, and prove it to everyone it’s the best ever audio since kingdom come