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Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok

Both of these beasts look like they could be that “forever purchase”. These are basically the newest offerings from both well respected companies and are within spitting distance of each other price wise  (without the Bartok headphone option installed). Anybody heard both and able to comment?
spinaker01
azwill
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jriggy, 

If you have not seen, you might want to check out https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/57261-sonore-compact-disc-digital-audio-streaming/

It's an interesting idea.  Used microRendu units are pretty reasonable and 2.8 card from Sonore to update to use the idea not very expensive.  It appears to me you could access the cd stream from Roon.
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jriggy
565 posts
 
Thanks guys. I will look into the mentioned. 
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ozzy
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Doesn't the X1 have a usb input?

ozzy
azwill
97 posts
 
ozzy,

Yes, the X1 has a single USB that can be used either for input or output.
bill_k
918 posts
 
As a point of clarification on the Lumin X1's USB connection, it can be used as an output with Native DSD512 support, PCM 44.1–768kHz, 16–32-bit, Stereo. As an input it supports connection of USB storage, flash drive, USB hard disk (Single-partition FAT32, exFAT and NTFS only).
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