Bluesound Node Icon


I currently use Bluesound products because of their multiroom capabilities. 

In my main system I have a bluesound node N130 hooked up to a Mcintosh D1100 preamp dac.

Thinking about buying the new Node Icon but I would be by-passing the built in dual dacs so I am not sure if there is any reason to upgrade to the ICON?

If anyone knows the new ICON and can give me some advice I would appreciate it.

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I found this in an article on Hifi pig.com. if I understand it right bringing in an INNUOS can work with your other stuff  


In Standalone mode it also allows the Pulse to be a UPNP/DNLA controller so, for example, I can assign my Hegel 190 or even my dining room Sonos speakers or LG TV as streaming endpoints and run it all from the Innuos Sense app. Various UPNP profiles are offered in the app as needed and it worked for me without any problems.

I have no experience with the new Bluesound product and therefore cannot directly answer the OP.

  Doesn’t NAD make more expensive streamers than the Node, and still use the Bluesound OS?  If so I would perhaps investigate that if I were the OP

NAD makes one stand alone streamer and it is not high end.

They do have a dac pre streamer - the M66 - that has the same streamer as the Node.