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Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality.

I would really like to get my streaming sq up to my analog sq. My equipment is a McIntosh MC 452, C47, TD 124 with an AT 150 SA on a SME M2-9 tone arm, a Rega P8 with an Alpheta 3, a restored MR 74 tuner, driving Aerial 7t speakers. My streaming now is an iPad with a usb cable into my preamp with Tidal. I would be willing to spend around $2500 . A one box solution would be preferable for a steamer/dac combo although two boxes could also work. I’m not interested in multiple clocks and separate power supplies etc. Also I don’t use CD’s for a source.  I do have AT&T fiber internet with up to 1000 mb speed and my modem is only around 5 feet from my audio rack. Balanced inputs is preferable but not a deal breaker. I’ve looked at the HiFi Rose 250 and the 150 although the latter is more money than I want to spend. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m an Analog guy in a digital world.

Greg

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mbolek
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@mapman Had the Evo 150 for about a month. I was in the same boat trying to consolidate a bunch of gear. Tremendous amount of experience with Hypex, so know the nCore stuff really well. Probably would have kept it if it had the Purifi modules. Didn’t spend enough time to eval StreamMagic.

Can’t say that the M33 is 2K better, but it looks like one of the best stand alones to date (even with some of its bass management issues). I also had the M10, Lygndorf 3400.

I moved to Rose to enable some flexibility on amplification. Lots of movement with GaN based stuff.

Fun times....

 

 

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Mbolek, OMG thank you so much. I have the remote and my iPad paired now. I have no idea what I was doing before. Going to try and play some music. Have to get the Rose volume or gain synced up to my preamp now.

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Great news, I’m playing music with Tidal!

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So, the good news is that the sound is truly amazing. Big step up from my previous streaming from my iPad through the dac in my mc47 preamp. I listened to most of Kind of Blue and the sound is on par with the new Analog Production Album that cost me $125. Not exactly the same but really, really good.

The bad news is I can’t use my iPad to control things and Tidal on the Rose is very rudimentary, meaning I have to search for anything I want to listen to. My iPad is paired to the Rose according to the Rose screen but I don’t see any way to get it connected. I have the Rose app on my pad and when I try to link them it just doesn’t work. Any thoughts from anyone?

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It just started working. It’s like it’s haunted!

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