A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers
Based strictly on signal quality and what makes your ears happy ( I don't care about storage for sake of question).......Would anyone make the argument that an Innuos Zen mini is an upgrade over an N100?
Glennewdick is dead on. I will save you the long speech about my experience, just look at my house of stereo system. My streaming is now awesome without adding any expensive streamer. Just upgraded the NODE 130.
I think you pose a good question. It has not been addressed directly. I will try a bit better.
I looked at reviews of the Inuous. I have to say researching many streamers and owning a Aurlic Aries G2, and Aurender N100, N10 and W20SE, I would go with the Aurender. They are top notch sounding streamers from a company that only does streamers. I can’t recommend them enough. My Aurender W20SE and Audio Research Reference DAC CD9 sound equivalent to my Top notch $45K vinyl end. I think that shows what Aurender is capable of.
The short answer is NO. This would be a lateral move at best, if that! IMO, N100 is better than Zen Mini. Having said that, to get the best out of N100; the quality of DAC, USB & PC cabling and rest of the system is just as important.
At moderately priced level, there are so many options to put together a decent sounding digital streaming front end. The devil is in the details. What have you done to optimize your Ethernet i.e. the connection between your router and streamer?
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