Streamer Recommendation.


Budget 7000US$.  (+/-)

System: Amplification: Luxman L 509X.  Speakers: Joseph Audio Perspective.  DAC:  PS Audio Perfect Wave.  CD/SACD PS Audio Perfect Wave.  Streamer:  BlueSound Node 2.I

I am limited to WiFi, due to my router location.   I would like a high quality streamer without DAC that will provide a noticeable improvement over the entry level Node.

Any assistance would be very helpful.

 

 

rbsaudio

You’ve got a really nice system there. I particularly love both Joseph Audio and Luxman. I’m an Aurender dealer, so take that into consideration, but there is a lot of love for the Aurender N200 on this forum. It retails $6,000, and while it doesn’t have wifi built in, I would encourage you to get a Netgear Orbi mesh router and satellite system for the home, which can be had for less than $1000. This would allow you to both have faster, more reliable internet around the house and be able to hardwire with a quality ethernet cable in from a satellite into the Aurender. This solution will deliver much better sonics than any unit that has wifi built in as that will be a major source or noise and interference. Aurender does also support wifi adapters with Realtek chips, but I would suggest going the mesh router / satellite route for improved sonics:

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Whole-Tri-Band-System-RBK752/dp/B08Z3FGSDH/ref=sr_1_4?crid=15NXMWI9Q18S4&keywords=netgear%2Borbi&qid=1667958844&sprefix=netgear%2Borbi%2Caps%2C279&sr=8-4&th=1

I'd be happy to answer any other questions you may have more directly over the phone or via PM.

Yeah do the the mesh network thing and have a node right at your rig to plug into.  I would also consider  Bryston BDP and the fairly new Moon Neo Mind 2. 

 

With that kind of budget you could also explore a ROON configuration. 

 

 

i think auralic is the one major streamer maker that prefers wifi over hardwire connection for network signal

+1 for Auralic.

if you can use a mesh system as suggested earlier than Innuos Zenith should also be a contender — you can rip cd’s and the unit can also optionally run as a Roon server. Once you get the streamer, I highly suggest a passive filter like ENO.

BTW, I also have the JA Perspective2 Graphene speakers — by far the best speaker I’ve ever owned. I used to own Luxman 590Axii and absolutely loved the combo.

I owned the Bryston and it sounded great but I got rid of it due to the software management program which ruined the whole experience.  I also  found the WiFi didn’t work as well as the wired, and the OP is limited to WiFi.  At that budget I would be looking at Aurender or Auralic, both of which I have heard demonstrated and sounded great.  Auralic may possibly be better with WiFi but I like the idea floated by @blisshifi of upgrading the WiFi, which the OP budget should allow for, and which will probably benefit any choice that he makes