Ghdprentice-I was in the same boat as you 5 or 6 years ago. I had a $15k tt setup with hundreds of albums. This is when I used Ethernet to the dac. I would have to spend much more on my tt setup to better the sound plus you still had the overhead of maintaining vinyl. I sold everything analog, even all my vinyl and have not regretted it for 1 second. Now I use i2s to the dac and sq has increased. If I wouldn’t have sold my tt setup years ago, I would have now
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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Not perfect but dam good one thing way over looked is the digital cables Tubulus audio Transformed my already good Innuos zen ,Hermes DDC then I2S to my Terminator 15 dac I bought the Concentus cable for the USB ,For the I2S the Ximius ,and Concentus for Ethernet the solid cord silver Air,tube dielectric I believe the best digital cables out there and I have tried Shunyata best, AQ best ,these were less money and at least a 10% improvement in overall fidelity Concentus power cords also. At a Audio get together one member has a whole system of Tubulus Audio cables ,fromHolland ,could not be happier . |
Happy with my Aurender N200 streamer paired with Bricasti M3 DAC. Is it a perfect combo? There’s always something better but I’m satisfied for now. |
I have a thrupple in my digital marriage . My Bryston DAC3 cohabitates with my Melco N 100 via usb and Cambridge Audio CXN 100 over SPDIF. The Melco , which is also my NAS, sounds great and I would probably give it a slight edge over the CA. There is fantastic separation of instruments, soundstage depth and delineation. I added the CA for features. Chromecast, AirPlay, podcasts, internet radio. The CA also sounds excellent and many times I use it over the Melco because I might be switching between Chromecast and files on the NAS and it’s just easier than changing the DAC input. Lately I’ve been wondering if the slight preference for the Melco renderer is because every thing is contained within the Melco. When I listen to a file from the Melco NAS over the CA it has to connect by Ethernet. At any rate I could easily live with either streamer exclusively by as Joel Grey says in Cabaret “..there’s two for one.” |
I had the 2nd generation BRYSTON BDP / BRYSTON BDA digital stablemates with a CARDAS CLEAR cable. Performance-wise it was quite pleasing BUT it’s archaic and clumsy “Manic Moose” digital interface drove me nuts. Enter the MOON by SIMAUDIO digital player / streaming DAC products, They have top-end network player/dac models at progressive prices. https://simaudio.com/en/product-category/digital-products/ At its pricepoint, the MOON 280D MiND2 beat all contenders and pretenders in MY system ….highly recommended and a L-T keeper for me. REVIEWS https://www.soundandvision.com/content/simaudio-moon-280d-streaming-dac-review
https://www.stereonet.com/reviews/simaudio-moon-280d-streaming-dac-review
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