I demo’d a T2, but purchased a U1 Mini to use with my current Ayre QSB-9DSD DAC. To answer your questions
1. It is a ROON endpoint and will do complete MQA unfold. (My U1 Mini does only the first MQA unfold. See MQA website for difference and full explanation of their technology.) T2 worked seamlessly with ROON.
2. Can’t speak to LUMIN as a company. Have only had my unit a few months. Firmware upgrades are automatic.
3. Haven’t listened to Mytek products.
4. It is Airplay compatible. You turn on Wi-Fi streaming within Lumin App, which is a relatively well designed piece of software.
LUMIN rep, who responded to my inquiry through their website, was very helpful. He indicated unit can take 200 hours to burn in and sound its best. If you have a local dealer see if you can get a demo unit that has met this requirement. I got a new T2 unit to demo and could only keep it over a weekend. Could tell unit needed time to sound its best.
Compared to my Ayre DAC, T2 sounded a bit “cooler” but T2 was very detailed. Using DSD re-sampling provided a slightly “warmer” sound as suggested by LUMIN rep. Kept my DAC because with LUMIN front-end, the sound became noticeably clearer, with instruments better defined.
Using an Ethernet connection to transmit music files is far superior to a direct USB connection to a computer, in my experience. The USB connection from the LUMIN U1 Mini to my DAC is much quieter with less distortion than the connection from my MAC Mini. The comments about computer USB being a “noisy” source for music was proved out to me.
1. It is a ROON endpoint and will do complete MQA unfold. (My U1 Mini does only the first MQA unfold. See MQA website for difference and full explanation of their technology.) T2 worked seamlessly with ROON.
2. Can’t speak to LUMIN as a company. Have only had my unit a few months. Firmware upgrades are automatic.
3. Haven’t listened to Mytek products.
4. It is Airplay compatible. You turn on Wi-Fi streaming within Lumin App, which is a relatively well designed piece of software.
LUMIN rep, who responded to my inquiry through their website, was very helpful. He indicated unit can take 200 hours to burn in and sound its best. If you have a local dealer see if you can get a demo unit that has met this requirement. I got a new T2 unit to demo and could only keep it over a weekend. Could tell unit needed time to sound its best.
Compared to my Ayre DAC, T2 sounded a bit “cooler” but T2 was very detailed. Using DSD re-sampling provided a slightly “warmer” sound as suggested by LUMIN rep. Kept my DAC because with LUMIN front-end, the sound became noticeably clearer, with instruments better defined.
Using an Ethernet connection to transmit music files is far superior to a direct USB connection to a computer, in my experience. The USB connection from the LUMIN U1 Mini to my DAC is much quieter with less distortion than the connection from my MAC Mini. The comments about computer USB being a “noisy” source for music was proved out to me.