The N150 is in-house and on its second day with 10 hours of total listening time. I’ve got one main thing to say— the problem wasn’t my DAC. The Chord Qutest is a fully competent DAC when input by a really good streamer. Wow! I don’t have the N150 fully optimized and the improvement is easily heard, ESPECIALLY the much improved center stage. Imaging! Much more ‘fleshed out’. Center stage depth is also much better. Stage width is excellent. And only 10 hours burn-in at this time.
It took me less than 2 hours to get an excellent understanding of Conductor. Advice for future owners is that Conductor is context sensitive like a Mac or iOS OS and can be somewhat confusing as a result. Actually it’s much worse than a Mac or iOS device. For example, if you are in a particular top menu, the sub-menu will have very different results even if it looks EXACTLY the same as something you did before. Seems obvious but it’s not.
‘Thanks to all and especially @lalitk for letting me know that Conductor was good!
For HiRes Internet radio jazz listeners, check out SuperStereo 7 in a search. There’s also other genres. It and other “custom” high resolution entered stations are excellent on the N150 as are Qobuz and Tidal.