What is the budget? There is a 2K price differential between the Topping and and Yggdrasil.
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If otoh, the system can detect subtle differences between components, get back to us with a budget
Well I picked those two as what I am looking at.
- The 10k$ Merging+NADAC is beyond what I would be comfortable budgeting
- And I would rather not spend anything if it is a flaw endeavour… so if it requires 20k$ to get something as good as vinyl, I would skip it, and just go buy some vinyl, and some bottles of Cab/Pinot/etc/…
One huge question for you, is how tied in are you to your silver discs? Many of us have reported improved SQ playing ripped files from a NAS that sends the files to your dac through a network player/streamer. This is a whole convo in itself, but I would suggest considering using any computer drive to rip discs to a NAS.
- Bingo. I need them in a car, and I like having them rather than a download.
- If all the transports are flawed, then maybe I should just chuck a car audio CD player into the system to play physical CD, and go NAS for the good stuff? The car CD player I have is supposedly pretty good for the CD transport and DAC end.
If your new "Home Theatre pre, which is Roon capable" means it's a Roon Ready endpoint device, then it can be your network streamer/player. Just connect it via ethernet cable to your network. Run Roon Core(the main Roon software) on 1) An Intel NUC if you're into some DIY-ish assembly 2) Small Green Computer/Sonore Sonic Orbiter 3) Roon Nucleus or 4) Mac or PC.
- I am already running a NUC for the NetFlix streamer, and another for Linux so I am familiar with them. (& thanks for the links - I’ll give them a whirl)
- I guess I come out of the NUC on one of the HMDI ports? And into the HT-AVR/Pre?
Thanks @dabel@ctsooner Thanks- I’ll PMThanks all