Lumin U1 vs Lumin U1 mini + sbooster?

Thank you as well, mrcypruz, for sharing your first-hand experience.

Snuphy91 and smodtactical, you’re more than welcome. Just trying to contribute to our magnificent community, hoping that someone finds the information useful. 

@mrcypruz

If you get your hands on dcs please let us know how it compares. I would be most interested.

I use a Lumin as a streamer to my DAC.

There are other ways to increase the performance rather than going from a U1 mini to a U1.

The power cord will make a big difference.

Grounding the Lumin with an Entreq box will significantly lower the noise floor.

And when I upgraded the digital cable to a Black Cat Tron, the Lumin took a quantum leap.

Out of all the tweaks you mentioned, the only I didn’t do was to ground the U1 Mini. Now imagine if you do the same to the U1, you’ll surely pull even further ahead of the U1 Mini.

Btw, that Black Cat Tron digital cable is the same price as the U1 Mini, I can only imagine it doing wonders with the U1.

The U1 Mini + Black Cat Tron digital came puts you really close to the U1 price.