Eversolo 8 is in your price range and is a good bang for the buck.enjoy the music
late to streaming, recommendations?
Vinyl and tubes guy here but I recently got my act together and figured out how to do loseless spotify into my system using a dedicated computer, usb to Cambridge Audio DacMagic100 and then rca into my tube preamp. sampling rate is 192 (whatever that means). was a definite improvement over what I was doing before and streaming finally sounds pretty good to me. Now I'm starting to use it a lot and wondering, well, how could it be better? What would be the logical and most worth it bang-for-the-buck upgrade path for me?
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@argonsteele given your budget, my recommendation would be to forget the streamer and instead pick up a used Bricasti M3 DAC with MDX board and a built in network renderer and use Jplay with it, streaming either Qobuz or Tidal. Sell your Cambridge DAC and kill two birds with one stone - upgrade the DAC and eliminate the need for streamer as for $1000 - $2000 you’re unlikely to significantly exceed the quality of the Bricasti’s network renderer, if at all. You might need to up the budget to about $3500 total. |
Today I purchased a used Sonore OpticalRendu for $500 (see USAM for listings). No power supply since I already had one lying around. This streamer uses fibre optic as input and outputs to USB on your DAC. Getting fibre optic from Ethernet is easy and cheap and for me the very best way to stream. The opticalRendu is in the same league as the Lumin fibre streamers (some of the very best and expensive at $10k). I think this is the 8th opticalRendu that I have bought. I have bought 5 of them for my own use and bought 3 for a friend. I sold my extra Rendu's when I sold a DAC, but I seem to always come back to the Rendu when I have a new DAC that needs to stream. These units are rather cheap now on the used market. There is a new version out that is supposed to sound even better, but I am good with the old version given the price. ************************************ Something I am curious about is if the Schiit Audio DACs with Union 2.0 USB input sound as good as the opticalRendu streamer when the DAC is connected directly to a noisy laptop by USB. Normally, you never want to do this but some experiments with a Schiit DAC module with Unison USB have been eye opening. I want to compare these 2 streaming options next week when I receive the opticalRendu I just purchased.
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