Streaming questions

If you don’t want to invest in a standalone DAC, I suggest looking into the Node ICON ($1.2k), which has received high praise from TAS, Tarun and Hans.  In particular, TAS compared it with a $37.5k setup consisting of the Aurender N200 ($7k) and the Berkeley Alpha DAC Reference Series 3 ($28k), connected through the Alpha USB Series 2 input module ($2.5k, essentially a DDC), and found the difference to be “subtle.” How subtle is “subtle”? I can’t verify his rather surprising claim since I’ve never heard the Berkeley, but I suppose you could take Tom’s word for it.

I play Qobuz in my car and it works great. My playlist, etc show up in the app that runs on my Android phone. 

I was a hard line CD guy. I held out as long as I could to stream. I didn’t get it, didn’t understand it, but most of all couldn’t get past “renting” my music. When I finally gave in and bought my first streamer I was BLOWN AWAY! Life changing! It’s true you’ll never look back. I also have Revel’s and started with Bluesound Node and it was just stupid simple to set up and be off and running. I now have an Eversolo DMP-A6 Master and LOVE IT! Eversolo seems to have a bad rep on here but I have had mine for almost 2 years without a single hiccup-love it! Highly recommend it…

I will also mention Bluesound Icon as well. I have that in a second system and love it.

Even though both units have excellent internal DAC’s, I use outboard DAC’s for both

Just do it. Dive in headfirst you’re going to ask yourself why you didn’t do it sooner!

Good luck!

@heirofmozart 

"I have finally given in to pressure and finally decided to start streaming"  What pressure?  Happy listening.

It’s becomes a scary world when you start screaming or should I say streaming.