A CD PLAYER whose sound quality NOT AFFECTED by the DAC?


Is there such an animal? I mean… why buy high quality and then have to thread it into my Bluesound Node DAC?

moose89

I don't completely agree that the DAC inside the Node is not that great. It sounds really good to me. I guess my external Bifrost 2 or Benchmark sounds slightly better but when I play most MQA files through Node alone it sounds very, very good. YMMV

I agree. Bluesound Node. Sounds too good to waste $$ on DACs that don’t include ARC HDMI

2psyop-  if Tidal MQA sounds good, imagine how much better Qobuz would sound!

 I currently run BALANCED to the NODE, whose DAC has been better than most.

I've never heard of a Node with balanced inputs.