Upgrade Suggestions please

@audphile1 

Me.

"Probably the most significant issue with streaming to my understanding is the bit rate. Your provider can send you a stream that by all indications your equipment identifies as 16 bit or high res when in fact, you’re receiving a compressed low bit copy. Your ears aren’t fooling you."

You.

"@faustuss no. Your streamer can’t possibly treat an MP3 file as a 24/192. Every streamer will validate the incoming data stream. DACs will do the same."

Yes, I stand corrected. I believe the point I was trying to make is that it stands to reason that you can record from any source to any of the available high rez formats whether it be FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, DSD or MQA and the result is only going to sound as good as the source it was taken from that is the distinction and your streamer isn’t going to make that one.

@ddgtt 

I look forward to hearing the Master Fidelity stack sometime. Perhaps at AXPONA. 

Please note: You should acknowledge that you’re the distributor and/or a dealer  when posting in a thread promoting a product.

And for $55k the Master Fidelity stack should be pretty good.  I wonder how it compares with a Grandioso stack.

I think I've maxed out on what Im going to do streaming wise. It sounds pretty damn good for exploring new music and going down rabbit holes. Now Im back on my vinyl rig and looking for 1st pressings!! :)