BEST MUSIC STREAMER UNDER 5K? BEST MUSIC STEAMER OVER 5K?


What are the best music steamers you have heard. Now   I AM AFFILIATED WITH INFIGO AUDIO! But I want opinions on streamers. I own our IS1 and I love it. I just want to know opinions on streamers you own and why you like it!  

calvinj

Anyone compared sound using their streamer versus Windows dedicated WASABI to same DAC using USB 2 or 3?  I’m finding this combo sounds very good and USB is generally considered better technically than spdif or toslink.

@dwette before we developed the streamer. I tried several streamers.  Aurender, melco, lumin and esoteric. I went using roon and other interfaces.  We developed our streamer because the others seemed to not have the clarity and dimensionality of the physical media.  Hans figured out the best way to stream and implemented it with Audirvāna and bingo. It sounds better than the others we tried 

@calvinj 

OK, but I don’t even use a separate streamer. My DAC exposes a Roon (or UPnP) endpoint on an ethernet input and that’s what I use.

I have a 3-month trial for Audirvana. If it’s better sounding for streaming Qobuz than Roon is then it’s barely noticeable to me. Sadly, I think the user experience of Audirvana is pretty crappy, at least compared to how I use Roon.

Out of curiosity I went to your home page to have a look, but it redirected me to Google search when I rejected site cookies. Maybe revisit that requirement if you want people to visit.

@dwette i will have Hans  look at it  for sure. I allow folks to try stateside in the US