None taken! It's all good my friend.
Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West?
I’ve been following the streaming threads here for a while now, and I find it both exhilarating and intimidating. I mean, we all know everything in high-end audio matters to some degree or another, right (Ok, maybe except for the flat earth contingent)? From what I’m reading and from my own experience the process of optimizing steaming has near unlimited potential, and some even say it rivals or even surpasses vinyl if taken to the max. Cables, routers, optical, filters, extenders, power supplies, switches, etc., they all seem to make a significant difference despite the naysayers who say bits are just bits. I’m all in on this steaming renaissance, but most of the jewels of useful info are buried in other posts, so I’d like to have this be a consolidator post of your best streaming experiences and recommendations for others who could benefit greatly from your hard-won victories and maybe save a lot of people the agony you went through to get to streaming nirvana. So have at it — let’s empower this community in this noble task and help everyone realize the amazing potential of this magic gift to audiophiles. What say you?
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@drbay - I'm glad that you are happy with your system and I didn't suggest that one can't have a very good or great sounding system with a DAC & streamer front end. I don't stream but I have a digital front end in both of my systems , a Neodio Origine S2 CD player in my main system, and the 2nd system is fronted by either a Mojo Audio EVO DAC or Modwright Elyse DAC, and a Simaudio 260DT CD transport. Like you I enjoy my listening sessions. Where I guess we'll agree to disagree is on the blanket take that a DAC/streamer will always trump either CD or vinyl. Anyway, enjoy the music, that's the end game |
Pure opinion @drbay you must have had a real weak analog FE setup if a Node 2i is besting it. Just saying..... I have $15K in my digital FE and $8K in my analog FE and prefer it. Though I enjoy them both immensely. Bottom line for me is it is about the music not the gear, but I have to have the gear to hear the music...
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What is your point @lalitk ? Is there a part you want me to fix up? |
@soix @facten Reason I chose Bluesound Node is practicality, from blueOS app you can switch to you TV and streamer seamlessly. This is very important for my family, we do not want to use 3 remotes, 5 buttons to toggle between TV and music. Node has a great HDMI connection which makes life super easy. Also there are some DDS like Denafrips Hermes or Gaia to improve existing digital source output, that is my possible next step. |
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