It's all about isolation and power supply like any other component I guess and some streamers do it better than others. Innuos streamers aren't cheap but they are excellent. There's a clear audible difference amongst the Innuos line-up. I went from a NAD all in one streamer/DAC to a Cambridge, and then to a NODE, then a Lumin, then an Innuos Pulse and now an Innuos Pulsar. Both the Pulse and Pulsar are fantastic but the Pulsar takes music to another level. But I have my eyes on an Innuos Statement NG. When you have reference components you want a reference streamer. Many people will tell you that all streamers are alike but that can't be further from the truth.
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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