Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West?


I’ve been following the streaming threads here for a while now, and I find it both exhilarating and intimidating.  I mean, we all know everything in high-end audio matters to some degree or another, right (Ok, maybe except for the flat earth contingent)?  From what I’m reading and from my own experience the process of optimizing steaming has near unlimited potential, and some even say it rivals or even surpasses vinyl if taken to the max.  Cables, routers, optical, filters, extenders, power supplies, switches, etc., they all seem to make a significant difference despite the naysayers who say bits are just bits.  I’m all in on this steaming renaissance, but most of the jewels of useful info are buried in other posts, so I’d like to have this be a consolidator post of your best streaming experiences and recommendations for others who could benefit greatly from your hard-won victories and maybe save a lot of people the agony you went through to get to streaming nirvana.  So have at it — let’s empower this community in this noble task and help everyone realize the amazing potential of this magic gift to audiophiles.  What say you?

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Showing 5 responses by juanmanuelfangioii

@facten ​​​​@lalitk Yes I sure did miss the point. So sorry no offense intended. 

You completely missed the point of my post. I have no qualms about how anyone choose to spend their money or their personal preferences / priorities for vinyl or digital.

To each their own @lalitk you chose to dump money in digit@holmz likes to spend his on vinyl. So what.

I enjoy all of it and prefer vinyl over digital. Is one bad and one good? Nope, just different.

You do you. No one is right or wrong.

Yup, setting up vinyl is like plugging a toaster to a wall outlet, plug and play 😂

Look at the recent threads started by @holmz

Pure opinion @drbay you must have had a real weak analog FE setup if a Node 2i is besting it. 

Just saying..... I have $15K in my digital FE and $8K in my analog FE and prefer it. Though I enjoy them both immensely. 

Bottom line for me is it is about the music not the gear, but I have to have the gear to hear the music...

no matter what your budget is, there is digital streaming system that can outperform a vinyl or CD listening experience.