Point of higher priced streamer?

Apple only supports 44.1/16 max for music and what I remember, the earlier ones (and I think the one you were using is quite old) resampled everything to 48KHz with questionable math accuracy.

No mention in your posts of actually using a Chromecast, just some interest in it, but the DACs you have listed using I don't remember being well known for jitter reduction.  Chromecast had high jitter on optical out and optical is more jittery in general.


I believe you just discovered recently a setting in the Node2i that fixes a known issue (I had same problem) and you use it in your headphone system, so have you truly done a 1:1 level matched comparison?

When people say they have "compared" things, there is more than going off memory. You need to actually do a 1:1 level comparison somewhat coincident in time.  Most of your comparative examples are "troubled" and are you using your new unit in USB mode?

How dare you bring actual facts into the discussion @rhj88 when people have strong opinions and sunk cost on their side!

LOL!! Actual facts? He just ordered it. He does not own it yet. So let me understand this, he said the below based on some writing on the Internets, with no actual hands on experience whatsoever of either Chromecast Audio, or “High Priced Streamers”?

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if connected via optical to a "decent" high performing DAC (e.g. Topping D50), it will outperform many higher-priced streamers 
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Holy crap AtDavid! And you hold yourself as the The Special One around here

So @rhg you fully understand those plots, but you still don’t own any streamer (just ordered a CCA from eBay), and any DAC? Hmmmm....

You guys are pathetic. And you don’t even hide it anymore. Your kin makes me throw up. Have at it

@thyname,

Maybe you should actually try reading some time instead of this bizarre obsession you have with me (and others it seems). You really need to get out of that little row house and out the country more and get some air. Did you actually follow this link? https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/measurements-of-sonore-microrendu-streamer.577/

The MicroRendu with the iFi power supply is an absolute disaster. Truly horrible. Hard to imagine how poor the design is to result in that poor of result.

And here you are defending it @thyname. There is no need to hear a Microrendu with the iFi power supply personally to recognize that is really bad. If someone defends that result, one can only assume they are more interested in defending dogma than in audio.

@rhg88 just provided the links. What he has or does not have in no way negates that the MicroRendu with the iFi power supply is a seriously flawed implementation.