Point of higher priced streamer?

Just as I predicted, any criticism of Chinese business practices is being equated with racism. There was nothing in my posts that attacked the social, ethnic, or cultural aspects of China. But the fact remains that the brazen theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, currency manipulation, illegal dumping, lopsided trade policies that create an unequal playing field for foreign companies operating in China, etc. has had a devastating impact on local economies, especially the smaller companies who thrive on innovation and R&D.

So yeah, if the companies in Sweden, Denmark or Finland start stealing IP, flooding the market with clones or fakes, while their governments not only look the other way but encourage such practices, we will have no problem calling them out as well. 

@arafiq

i wouldn’t pay attention to this clown ’divertiti’ -- he on his high horse pointing out racism

30 years of trading high end gear, this d-bag is 1 of 2 people who burned me, selling me a badly modded/malfunctioning don sachs preamp... then wouldn’t step up and reverse the sale when called out - i needed don sachs to help me out and fix the damn thing ... took me 3 months of back and forth, 2 volume boards, to get it back to stock condition and working right

i am over it, some people are just dishonorable, and trading used gear once in a blue moon you run into someone like this... but just the same, i don’t forget

bad character and hypocrisy comes in all sizes shapes races

Simple minds have simple tastes.

Bet you Apple ear pods sound better than Focal Elears too?

Enjoy the music...

I didn't feel like reading through the volleyball match of one-sided opinions on this entire thread, so maybe you mentioned it. What DAC do you have? I mean, I'd say yeah it won't make a huge impact on a lower end DAC, but it's a FACT a streamer makes a size-able, audible, not so subtle difference in higher end systems with a DAC that's able to respond to a more pure source. 

The way you need to look at this is simple...Back in the day, did a shitty TEAC CD player sound better than a high end CD Player? Just replace CD player with Streamer and you have your answer. The DAC in the Node 2i, would qualify as a very low end DAC. In HiFi terms anyway. 

The OP is long gone. He said he joined ASR for advice. In fact, I am pretty sure he did not intend to gather any advice here. More like throwing a grenade and enabling various snake oil screechers, including the biggest of them all, the guy who keeps coming back over and over with different usernames, after being banned at least five times.