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Do you have a perfect digital marriage?

Please share with others if you have a perfect digital marriage. 

Do you have a streamer (brand and Model) that you have paired with a DAC (brand and model) that has created a blissful marriage creating the best harmony you have heard?

What are the aspects of the sound you really like?

For example  HiFi Rose RX RS130 streamer fed by fiber optic ethernet connected I2S to Denafrips Pontus II, 12th Anniversary DAC.

Organic, clean, musical, great separation of instruments, dynamic

How's you marriage going?

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DC-powered 2016 Mac Mini -> Pi2AES streamer -> Doge 7 DAC.  Big, 3D analogue sound.  Sounds pretty good to me, and my listening buddies agree.  The Pi2AES is $199, plus $80 for a Raspberry Pi 4 and $80 for Gentooplayer operating system.  Same with the Doge, which I got on sale four years ago for $1000.  Sabre DAC with all-tube output, no op amps, built like the proverbial tank.

I'd like to hear some newer DACs with I2S input, like a Holo or Denafrips, but I'm not in a hurry.  The Doge uses the coax from the Pi2AES.  I might try to borrow something from a friend at some point.

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