Do you have a perfect digital marriage?

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.
Sold my analog setup - it made no sense ti keep it as it wasn’t going to be used when a digital front end is at this level. Kept the record collection though. Its future is undecided.

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://darko.audio/2021/07/refined-precision-moon-by-simaudios-280d-streaming-dac/

https://www.stereonet.com/reviews/simaudio-moon-280d-streaming-dac-review

I use an Aurender N200  network streamer ,  Lab 12 DAC 1 Reference ,  and Teac VRDS 701t Transport.    Great sounding front end in my rig.