SQ Comparison of 3 streamers

the truly skeptical among us would start to suspect Volumio is sabotaging Qobuz Connect to get you into their ecosystem.  But I’ve no idea myself.

I only want to comment on this point. I think this conspiracy theory is being taken too far and is not an educated guess. The Linux-based Volumio player app was released much earlier (2017) than QC (2025). The main framework and programming structure were established back then. Even today, there are still bugs in the software that need to be addressed. If they could reverse-engineer QC to sabotage it, they could just as easily fix all the bugs to win their customers back instead of losing business.  Let’s keep our morale up.  

? Weird.  my comment was truly random.  don’t understand why this is so “serious”. 

@donquichotte  an Innuos Pulse and an Innuos Zenith MK3 and both of these have better technicalities but not quite as great musicality and not quite as natural timbres as the Zen. 

Thank you for being the 2nd owner replying.  It is to my surprise that the higher-end (in price) models sound less musical to Zen 3.  This provides me the cost benefit as well.  Appreciated.

@lanx0003 it isn’t unusual for higher priced, higher end components to sound less musical if the design focus was on resolution. You’d get a more resolving, but more analytical presentation. 

@lanx0003 

Here’s a thought: different bit perfect applications can add different levels of jitter to a bit perfect data stream.  What is your DAC? Perhaps it’s susceptible to jitter?