Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?

college graduated but now goofed around for a year - got to give them the daddy kick in the pants. 
 

@kennyc a very familiar situation. My son’s been struggling for a year to find a job after he graduated in 2025. Job market sucks. He finally started last week. Hang in there something will pop up. 
 

@audio-b-dog I was listening to a few albums yesterday on qobuz streaming with roon and the sound quality was mushy and rolled off. Switched to jplay - fixed. Had to reboot my roon core. It was so good after the april release with roon and now two updates later and the roon core is struggling again. Album artwork slow to display, search is just painfully slow. Good thing I kept jplay!

@audphile1 

I dumped Jplay, but I have a feeling they'd welcome me and my money back. What are the advantages of Jplay over Qobuz connect? Of course, that depends on which one recognizes the Meitner. If I hadn't invested in the MA3i, the MA3 is damned good. I'm playing James Taylor's "Gorilla," and it sounds great. I'll see later on today, or at least when I've broken in the MA3i. 

@audio-b-dog new DAC arrives today?

when comparing jplay vs wobuz connect, jplays sounds more natural to me with better depth. Q connect is great but it’s a bit more direct and slightly flatter in the soundstage department. Again, that’s in my system. We have totally different equipment, cables and room acoustics and until you hear it yourself, you won’t know. 

@audphile1 

I will try to set up Jplay when it arrives, probably at around 4 or 5. Google AI has given me instructions on how to do it. Hopefully everything goes well.

@audphile1 

I've plugged in the MA3i. I think it sounds like a different streamer. I was listening to Eric Clapton Unplugged today on the MA3, and there were many things I was noticing about it being "soft." Lack of transcient attack on the guitars and a inflation of the sound. The entire sound was "wooly." All of that has been corrected with the MA3i. I haven't done any intense listening or even broken it in, but it is definitely one or more steps up from the Meitner MA3. Thanks for recommending it. BTW, I am listening on Jplay.