Lumin U1 vs Lumin U1 mini + sbooster?

Audio sensibility sells a conversion kit for the U1 mini to run with linear power supplies other than the sbooster.

The kit has a 5.5 x 2.1mm DC socket.

I use it with an Uptone JS-2 LPS.

The U1 mini sounds fantastic in this setup.

I also ground the U1 mini with an Entreq Olympus minimus.

macdude, yes of course everything in the chain matters, that’s why my stereo sounds so good. However the problem with changing technologies is a serious consideration, especially for the companies building DAC’s and digital streamers. Ayre is a company that continues to upgrade their components because they want to keep there customers current. If Lumin had a reputation for doing the same, then I’d be less apprehensive about buying their product. I don’t want to have to drop a few thousand every six years in order to play a larger file size. 

I owned both the Lumin U1 and dCS Network Bridge.  For a number of reasons I don’t own either one now, I found the U1 sounded better to me than the Network Bridge.  I was using both with a dCS Debussy DAC.

sfseay, are still using the Debussy?

@sfseay wow Impressive. U1 is truly a marvel then.
By the way its weird but lately I am finding my DI20HE alone sounds better than u1 mini and sounds better than the di20he+u1mini combo in a chain. Using I2s out of di20he and coax out of u1 mini. So the vs is not totally fair because of the different outputs.