Streamer Recommendations

+1 @russ69  

I run a Cambridge Audio CX V2 with my Lyngdorf integrated and Martin Logan Summits and can vouch for it's performance. I love it. Even looks pretty cool and has a nice display that shows album art, for such a low budget streamer, compared to the nicer, more expensive ones. 

At the time I bought it it was what I thought was the biggest bang for the buck. Nice to know people are still singing it's praises. 

Happy listening.

Put all your music on a USB hard disk, then plug that into a Cambridge Audio streamer. 

All your music, in one place, that is easy to control.

streamer with hard disk (iPad controlled) - Mac- speakers.

Here is one more very happy innuos pulsar owner 😊 

Top tip , get the best innuos you can afford 😁

Instead of :

Music --> PC --> cloud --> ipad --> streamer --> amp/speaker/sw

Try for this :

Digital Audio Block Diagram.pdf

Notice the PC is gone and the iPad is only used as a controller - the audio never passes through it. This isn’t the only valid way to configure a system, there are lots of options and alternatives, but this is probably the most common.

Also notice the use of line level LP or LFE feed to the subwoofer. Any other form of connection is simply a compromise. Failing to HP filter the satellites denies all the benefits of bi-amping like better dynamic range and power handling; lower distortion from over excursion.

Anyway, the diagram is adequate for clarifying the discussion, particularly on the choice of interconnect - USB to a local disk attached to the streamer vs Network Attached Storage attached to the LAN.

If you are planning on building a substantial library of your own, the NAS is a far more scalable solution and using RAID, far more reliable as losing a disk drive does not mean losing the library as is the case with a single disk attached to the streamer.

I use a Wiim Ultra going to a SMSL PO100 Pro reclocker to a Geshelli J3 DAC with the Sparkos SS2590 op amps to a Perreaux SA2 pre amp and an Acoustat TNT 200 amp. The speakers are Acoustat Spectra 2200 electrostatics and the two Acoustat passive subwoofers. The sound is incredible using Tidal with WiFi connectivity. I upgraded from the Wiim Pro Plus. The difference is like night and day. I am exstatic with my udated sound system. Its easy to operate using a Samsung Galaxy A8 tablet with the Wiim app.