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Bluesound vs SOtM

I am a vinyl guy but after living with the Chromecast audio for a few years I finally bought a DAC. The DAC is an Ayre Codex currently fed by a MacBook Air 2011, directly connected via USB. It sounds a bit harsh and flat, although with plenty of detail and great body in the lower frequencies.

I have therefore decided to feed the fact with a streamer instead. My question is this: Has anyone substantial experience comparing Bluesound Node 2 with a SOtM SMS 200 (with the SPS 500 power supply) in a revealing system?

Again, my system is very revealing so even subtle differences between the two will be clear.

I currently use only TIDAL and YouTube but I am interested in differences in hardware of the streaming that affect all uses.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience,
Fred
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mnski
12 posts
 
Lumin is a free app I use with the SMS-200. Tidal streaming works well with it. I'll try Roon after a computer & iPad upgrade, but Lumin does the job. Another free app that can be used is called kazoo I believe.
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jetter
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melm
1,085 posts
 
I use an SOtM as a DLNA bridge with JRiver on a laptop.  It works beautifully.  The important thing is to not have your music run through the computer.

SOtM USA is having a black Friday sale.  They also have an easy return policy.

Are you certain that a dongle will work?  I'm not so sure.  I use ethernet.

You could save some $$ by using a third party LPS and not suffer any loss of SQ.  I use an sBooster but you can probably do better if you search around.



jetter
3,064 posts
 
I don't think you could do better than to purchase the Node 2i to use as your streamer and run it to your Codex DAC.  The Bluesound controller app is a pleasure to use.  I love mine.
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