Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp

@audphile1  Got it, and thanks.  Funny how impenetrable often coincides with unwilling/afraid to just use their own ears.  🙄

I hope this is helpful.

@mdalton  It’s not. 
 

There are others, like me, whose beliefs/experiences suggest that if you spend more than a relatively small amount of $ (i.e., $250 to $2,000?) on a streamer, you may be spending money on features that have nothing to do with sound quality.  

So, I see you have a Zen Stream and ProJect Stream Box so let’s just cut to the chase here.  What >$2k streamers have you had in your system that don’t sound any better than those?  An Innuos Zenith was superior on every level in my system relative to my Zen Stream with upgraded power supply — not even close, so it’d be very interesting to know on what you’re basing you’re contention that there’s no sonic benefit to spending more on a streamer.  Please share, or is it just your belief that more expensive streamers don’t sound better because numbers or other people say they don’t?

Or maybe someone who has spent a lot of time with streaming tech, has a good system with lots of options, and a good ear.

Soix is probably right when he says the majority agree with him, but this is a self selecting group.

@jji666  Yup, a self-selecting group that use their ears.  Spending time with streaming tech is not the same as actually listening.  What streamers have you actually compared in your system?  I started streaming with an iPad and have had both the iFi Zen Stream and Innuos Zenith Mk3 in my system and the differences were patently obvious between all three — not even close, which is why saying all streamers sound the same is just ludicrous to me.  If you’ve tried better streamers and hear no difference then fine — sad, but fine — but just basing your argument on theory and tech experience is weak and not fully informed and won’t hold much weight here.  There’s a reason so many here have heard meaningful differences and have upgraded to better streamers, and it ain’t because all streamers have no sound or because they’re fooling themselves.

All streamers have no sound = Head in the sand.

@audphile1  Heh heh.  Yeah, my bad.  Alvin wouldn’t touch the nuts here. 

@mdalton. Yeah, sorry I got your daddy’s name wrong. 

@mdalton The vast majority of people here find meaningful differences in the impact streamers have on sound so you’re in the distinct minority, If you can’t hear differences between streamers then that’s sad but good for you, and I hear ASR calling your name hard.  Alvin is your daddy. 

@mdalton Maybe because they don’t like people who like to play mommy.  Hmmm.

@mdalton Nah, just issues with ridiculous statements.

@mdalton Yeah, and I have a different opinion from him which is perfectly within my right. He came out and made a strong statement that I thought was ridiculous and rebutted it. That happens here — deal with it. BTW, the vast majority of people here agree with what I said, so get over that dude.

Streamers don’t have a sound and I agree software would be the focus.

Well that’s just completely untrue, poor advice, and the words of someone with little/no experience comparing streamers and/or has a system or ears incapable of revealing the differences. Both sound and software are vitally important, and discount either at your peril.

If it’s me I’d get the Innuos Pulse streamer for its performance and outstanding Sense app and a pair of Rhythmik F12G subs that you can get for a little over the price of just one e110 and that have 12” drivers and much higher performance capabilities. Just my $0.02 FWIW, and best of luck.