@vinylshadow Great gear, aesthetics subjective & for me questionable. I absolutely agree with the premise of cancelling out RF & EMI by using Fiber. I use Corning LC to LC OS2 10Gb/Gigabit Single-mode Jumper Duplex optical fiber cable and Finisar SFP's. In my experience, this has huge sonic advantages over ethernet Cat 7 cable and I cant see me never go back to Cat Cable. I know its controversial with wire guys but hearing us believing in my Lumin X1
Upgrading streamer transport Lumin U2X Vs. Aurender N20
My current streamer is a Lumin U2 mini with a LHY Linear power supply. My Dac is a Weiss 204 with a Modwright Linear Power supply. Seeking to upgrade my dac to a Berkely Alpha Series 3 with their USB audio interface. I am used to the operation of my Lumin U2 mini that works with Qobuz. Is there anybody that has compared the sound of the Aurender N20 to the Lumin U2X . I did call Aurender and they provide phone support. Spoke to a rep who is out of Minnesota who was very knowledgeable and helpful. Lumin provides a Hong Kong number, but not sure the quality of their support. The Lumin retails for $11,000 and the Aurender $13,500.00. Any thoughts would be appreciated. By the way, Aurender provides storage that I don't need.
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If for sure you only will use USB an Antipodes K21 is just $7000. Support is as good as anyone, if one is not technically saavy phone calls and emails can be frustrating, and they can actually login into your computer and network and figure it out. look at this -but I am biased :) 5 year warranty vs. 2 years for everyone else. But as said before demo the stuff- Get your DAC figured out, then once you are familiar with it demo streamer/server/players, they all sound a little different from one another. With your increased budget you are now in different territory. Have you looked at a Grimm MU2? All in one DAC/streamer solution, less boxes, less cables which is appealing. Also as vinylshadow else mentioned Playback Designs reportedly engineer some of the best digital on the planet. Lots of choices out there. |
@nubiann you were talking about noisy displays and they’re a non issue with the critical listening feature. In any case, I personally don’t care for the display on any of my components and I either dim it if it can’t be turned off, or turn it off completely. |
I also don't want to stray too far afield from the OP, but am wondering if anyone's had a chance to do some critical listening on the Innuos Stream 3. We carry other, earlier Innuos products at Alma Music + Audio (Sterling, VA and San Diego, CA), and they've all sounded pretty great, but the Stream 3 no sooner hit the store before someone snapped it up! |
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