Lumin X1 dont see many virtual audiogon systems with this?

@eugene81, that was an EXCELLENT and well informed post!

Thank you. :-)

I am using the X1 direct to my tube mono block amps. Awesome sounding, the LEEDH volume is excellent. Taking the separate Dac, preamp and all the associated cabling out also helped.

I now have the X1 connected to an 8TB hard drive with all my music on it and stream other music from Qobuz. that is connected to a EtherRegen/After Dark with the fiber cable going to the Lumin.

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I use an etherregen, as it facilitates the optical connection.  Beyond that I am not sure what the hell it does.  But I can't figure that out because I'd lose the optical connection ability if I remove it.  Maybe I should go back to coaxial or RCA and avoid optical.  But then wouldn't that introduce lots of noisiness from the outer world.  I really like optical as it probably reduces noise.

I got the X1 because of the dac and its ability to get along with the lumin.  I hate the idea of dealing with all the various separate dacs out there. So many rabbit holes.  And also wanted to avoid all the connectivity challenges and rabbit holes.

It's a fine streamer dac.  There are so many other places worthy of more attention in my system.

Has anyone compared the X1 to the upper Linn DSM units like the Akurate or Klimax?

Just got to say, I don't have any interest in these products, but I am impressed by all of the great information shared in this thread.

I wish more threads were like this one.