Is it my streamer or does Audirvana sounds better?

That’s great—look how much you saved. About $5,000? You could take a world vacation instead of agonizing over streamers.

I started a similar journey about a year and a half ago and finally settled on two streamers I like. The cost: $5,000 approx, not counting all the electricity burned during break-in and auditions.

Don’t get me wrong—my streamers still sound much better than my fanless MacBook running Foobar2000. But the streamer is the component I’ve spent the most time on. What really matters now is that we’re all happy and enjoying the music.

I did try Innuos pulse as well and it sounded better than Eversolo and Hifi Rose. Very close to Audirvana on a mac( again to my ears in my room) So many contradicting opinions 🤔. I read about a tube streamer that made me scratch my head ( tube in a stand alone streamer???) SW1X I may try it next couple months and hopefully it sounds good. 

Don’t bother. Just use what you like and what sounds best to you

This is a great testimony of Audirvana. Streaming is very software dependent. Good hardware is wasted when loaded with bad software.

I used Audirvana during my foray into streaming about 15 years ago.

Enjoy your setup.

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts regarding Audirvana

 and my journey in finding best sounding source to my ears 🙏