If you’ve heard an iFi Zen stream, anything better under $1k?

@blkwrxwgn I'm guessing you got an early one. Probably took a factory software revision or two to stabilize things. That makes sense since all my units arrived last month and each unit came right up perfectly.

Hoping you find the same if you try again. I think it's a great product and good value. I haven't tried to see if it makes a difference sonically but  those with a little extra cash might want to upgrade to the ifi iPower X or iPower Elite power supply at a later time. Buy these from Amazon and if you don't hear a difference, return them. Swapping out the cheap, stock power supply that came with my Roon Nucleus+ for the iPower Elite was a noticeable and cost effective improvement.

@vinylvalet thats one thing I'm bummed about!  The first few hundred they sold came with the upgraded X power supply!  So now if I want to try it again, I'm going to have to spend the extra money to get that power supply because I think that did make a difference in the sound.

@blkwrxwgn Sorry to hear that, I can imagine the frustration. Best of luck moving forward.

@blkwrxwgn 

Can you find that for under $1k? An interesting option for sure.

I got mine delivered DHL for $940

i bought my first Zen Stream back in August and sent it back. bought a second one and the PSU was defective. that and the fact that it kept crashing. could have been my network? bought a 2i a couple of months ago and no problems. although i sent the second ZS back, however  i kept the ifi Ipower supply in hope that ifi would eventually resolve the problems down the road and make it more compatible with all network users. the 2i sounds very very good with an external DAC. the new Node is not available here yet, if i could find something under 1K that sounded as good as the ifi as a streamer only and had the reliability of the 2i i would be very interested. until than i will monitor the forums to see how the Zen Stream is progressing and if a version 2 might be released.