Order the new MagnaMano-Farad in AES-EBU. Looks like a giant killer.
3D Labs streamer?
I am looking for a quality streamer and I was considering all the usual ones, Lumin, Auralic, Aurender, DCS network bridge, etc. I saw a post mentioned a streamer that I never heard of, namely the 3D Labs Platinum streamer. I found their website, it is all in French but google translate is your friend... It sounds an interesting product, it talks about the power supply which sounds like a good one and uses an FPGA but not much more information is given. I couldn’t find many articles on this streamer on the web or in forums either. Has anyone heard of it? Btw I am only interested in AES/EBU output, USB is of no interest to me.
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@fuzztone Right, that was another streamer I am considering, it is Pi2AES based one, is it not? |
Not familiar with those two but having gone through the exercise of updating my streaming recently, it became apparent that features and reliability (also of course cost) are probably the two most important things that differentiate streamers these days, way more so than sound quality, at least in cases where an outboard DAC is used. You really have to do some homework to sort through all the features that vary from product to product and which matter to you. Just my advice... |
There are so many options! One minute I settle on a Lumin U2 mini, the next is an Auralic, then a used DCS bridge and so on. Then you hear of new ones coming to the market recently and the search goes on. At this rate I will never purchase anything! Of course then it is all the network 'enhancements'. |
Ok with the big players but remember few years back they were newcomers too that hardly anyone knew of. I am all for supporting innovative companies that give you value for money. Of course the risk is you may get a half baked product or later no support if the said company goes under. Anyway coming back to the question to give you a little more information about my system, the new streamer will be connected to a Trinnov ST2 Hifi that does DRC and that feeds a Weiss DAC202 which performs best with firewire (remember it?) or AES/EBU inputs. As the source, I am currently using a slightly optimised PC with a firewire card or a Teac VRDS CD player. |