Moving up from a Node 2i

@marklings So Roon fed into an existing streamer and dac using it as a Roon endpoint delivers an improvement in sound quality?

I was going to stay with my Node 2i but the Lumin stayed an itch to scratch.

I went with the D2 as I wanted the intergrated dac, I think the Lunmin Is more neutral and musical especially at higher volumes.

Application wise it seems very old school and in need of a redesign, I’ve decided not to use it and use Roon as the front end.

I keep using it just to ensure I know how it works, i've only took a year subscription to Roon, I'm not really into the metadata but really like I can select a track and use the music feature for it to select and play music based on that selection.

At the minute i'm then saving these selections as playlists after a few hours for future use.

It also make it easy to select my Sonos speakers.

Maybe at the end of the year i'll swap back to Lumin, although Roon is good its an additional cost.

But i really like my D2 

Cheers Phil

I also have Apple Music and prefer its playlists over the Tidal ones, i'm also using Soundiiz to transfer from AM to Tidal which then flow into Roon.

So for those of us getting their first streamer and feeling a bit gun-shy about big expenditures, is the consensus that the Node2i does a decent job, in its class?

I would say yes, I liked mine, but if you move to very good amp and speaker space the better streamers do seem to provide a more musical and detailed experience. You do pay a lot more for that jump though.

Hi Mike I just use a free account and manually transfer what I want over.