Do you have a perfect digital marriage?


Please share with others if you have a perfect digital marriage. 

Do you have a streamer (brand and Model) that you have paired with a DAC (brand and model) that has created a blissful marriage creating the best harmony you have heard?

What are the aspects of the sound you really like?

For example  HiFi Rose RX RS130 streamer fed by fiber optic ethernet connected I2S to Denafrips Pontus II, 12th Anniversary DAC.

Organic, clean, musical, great separation of instruments, dynamic

How's you marriage going?

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Well, if not perfect, I would say it is wonderfully engaging, and I look forward to discovering music through it daily. I hardly ever think about the equipment, which I love.

 

Small Green Computer SonicTransporter i5/Sonore Optical Rendu/Ayre QB 9 DSD Twenty.

Enough richness, color and density so it really feels like music. More than my perfectly good CD player. And Roon is easy enough to make my way through Qobuz and thousands of ripped files. Not perfect, but more than good enough...

Sonic transporter i5 with Roon on network main router in separate room.
Mesh router to optical FMC, EtherRegan w/After Dark clock, Stack SmoothLan, Bricasti M5 Network Streamer, USB to Mojo Mystique EVO B4B 21. Puts a smile on!

Yes. Aurrender W20SE —> Audio Research Reference 9CD DAC. Musical, detailed, enveloping, natural with great imaging.. 

The problem is, it sounds just like my great analog end top end Linn LP12 with Koetsue Rosewood Signature cartridge and Audio Research Reference 3 phonostage. I was ecstatic when my digital end at last measured up to my analog end. Now the problem is, there is absolutely no benefit to listen to and of my 2,000 albums. So, I am starting to think about investing another $10K+ into a cartridge to help my vinyl end pull ahead enough to justify using it once in a while. It’s just collecting dust now.

Admittedly, a great problem to have.