Dep most people find that the Dac will only sound as good as what you feed it.
The Salk Streamer is a fine piece but would it be in the class of an Innous don’t think so.
The Salk steamer looks to be a mini pc running tweaked Linux and Roon. There is no mention on power supply design.
For the same money you can get an Innous Zen which uses a custom designed linear power supply, a custom built mother board, custom software, a shock mounted hard drive, an ethernet noise filter, full on line support, and back up from a company with more than one principal.
Many people are finding that the improvement in the server is just as important as the improvement in the dac.
The fact that even a high end streaming dac which would require nothing else other than an direct ethernet connection sounds noticeably better being feed by a cleaner signal from the Innous would invalidate that argument.
If you read the Innous Statement review the reviewer was floored at how much more analog like and more musically involving the sound from the same dac was with the superior digital signal being feed to it he said it was a breakthrough in digital sound reproduction.
We have currently on the floor an Innous Statement, a Baetis Reference, a Innous Zenith Mk II and we have had the Zenith MK III on the floor.
The same data sounds very different over an ethernet connection being feed to the same streaming dac, from all three of these servers, the Innous Statement made the streaming dac much better sounding. than the other two.
We are not saying that people shouldn’t invest in a good dac but they should also invest in a real server to feed that dac properly.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Innous Dealers
The Salk Streamer is a fine piece but would it be in the class of an Innous don’t think so.
The Salk steamer looks to be a mini pc running tweaked Linux and Roon. There is no mention on power supply design.
For the same money you can get an Innous Zen which uses a custom designed linear power supply, a custom built mother board, custom software, a shock mounted hard drive, an ethernet noise filter, full on line support, and back up from a company with more than one principal.
Many people are finding that the improvement in the server is just as important as the improvement in the dac.
The fact that even a high end streaming dac which would require nothing else other than an direct ethernet connection sounds noticeably better being feed by a cleaner signal from the Innous would invalidate that argument.
If you read the Innous Statement review the reviewer was floored at how much more analog like and more musically involving the sound from the same dac was with the superior digital signal being feed to it he said it was a breakthrough in digital sound reproduction.
We have currently on the floor an Innous Statement, a Baetis Reference, a Innous Zenith Mk II and we have had the Zenith MK III on the floor.
The same data sounds very different over an ethernet connection being feed to the same streaming dac, from all three of these servers, the Innous Statement made the streaming dac much better sounding. than the other two.
We are not saying that people shouldn’t invest in a good dac but they should also invest in a real server to feed that dac properly.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Innous Dealers