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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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mapman
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I agree with streamers best to go with the big boys. Little value that boutique brands can add and in fact they may struggle to keep up .

I ended up with a Cambridge Evo 150 that replaced separate monoblock amps, pre-amp, phono pre, DAC and streamer. Very happy!

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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...

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