Lumin Hifi Rose or Aurender


I am looking for a new streamer (with no dac) and streamer with a dac and would prefer to stay with one brand.  Have it narrowed down to Lumin, Hifi Rose or Aurender.  I need spotify connect and access to tidal.

I will spend in the 4 to 6K for the Steamer and 3-5K for the streamer Dac

I have a Berkeley alpha dac 3 that the streamer will feed in system one which is a higher end system mcintosh C22 into a MC462 with Harbeth 40.3 XD speakers.

The streamer dac is for a second system which is more middle of the road.  Mcintosh MA6500 with Totem Forest Signature speakers.

I do streaming only and don't have no need for drive storage.

Love to here your thoughts 

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Lumin and T&A would be a great combo. Both well built. Both have great volume controls, one digital and one analog. Just an FYI but I liked the DAC 200 better with a good streamer than using HQPlayer upsampling everything to DSD. Not sure about the Lumin upsampling as I owned a Lumin U1 Mini before owning the DAC 200. 

That is interesting ... I looked into HQPlayer and it looked more complicated than I wanted.  The lumin seems like a good alternative since I can turn the upsampling off if I find the DSD is not great and just use it as a streamer.

 

I've loved my U2 mini except for the app, which I found awkward to use with Qobuz. I posted about that in a Lumin forum on another site and Peter responded within minutes that I ought to try JPlay. I did and it's great. Really wonderful when a company doesn't just insist that their solution is best and actually reaches out to help you find a solution.

Has anyone owned or had a good listen to a NAD Masters Series streamer compared to a Lumin, Rose, Aurender or similar?  Some said Ayre is worth considering.


I have an M50/M51 combo, but the M50 only streams now. I’d like to stick with BluOS and upgrade to the M50.2 for the ripping/storage/server functions. I like BluOS, and I’m happy with the NAD sound in my system, but I would be happy upgrading to an even warmer, more dynamic, even tubey sound. The rest of this system is a Belles Soloist 1 integrated and Vandersteen 2Ce (not Sigs).