Think ill just go with a lumin
Starting out anew. reading all of the post into the wee evening hours, and getting more and more confused, I think I may just get a Lumin DAC/streamer combo. D2 or T2 i suppose, maybe an S1 if i can find one a little cheaper and I scrimp and save a little more.
My situation is rebuilding from scratch, so waiting for pieces to come together. Going with a Mac MA 352, and a pair of devore o96 speakers. Smallish room, just plan on streaming and putting a turntable onto the system, but nothing else. Figure i will just subscribe to tidal or Qbouz for the convenience, although anything appl conected is a plus. Will have a hard wire connection and decent wifi. I suppose i am most worried about how technology may change, and whether I should go R2R, but that rabbit hole started to make my head hurt.
If anyone has some opinions, either it wont work or seems like a solid approach, views are much appreciated.
I have the D2, It links you in to the internal DAC and if you use Tidal that’s fine but you get no flexibility , also for Tidal you don’t get Tidal Connect on the D2. I’m changing mine out and have replaced it with an Ifi Stream with USB out to a Topping D70S MQA DAC, seems more musical to me with greater detail. I would go streamer and separate DAC for flexibility unless you want a single box solution. |
I’ve not heard of them having a preamp but they do have a digital volume control called leedh that you can enable in the lumin app. |
