Does the streamer effect sound quality


I have a Bluesound streamer device and I have been wondering if I change to a Cambridge cxn v2 streamer will the sound quality improve. I am only using these devices as a streamer to play tidal. They will be streaming to my Cary cdp dac via rca input. 
 

 

 

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Showing 3 responses by audphile1

Do streamers matter? Yes absolutely they matter.
But…in my opinion a move from the Bluesound to Cambridge is not much if an upgrade. Going from Bluesound to something like a Lumin U1 Mini or U2 Mini will be a bigger step up. You can find a used U1 Mini with an SBooster power supply upgrade. That would be nice. Don’t waste time and money on lateral moves like the bluesound to Cambridge.

@mahler123 yep the manic moose is hideous. I heard the CXN v2 and the lstest node although not side by side. I think the latest node and the Cambridge are pretty close and it’s possible the cxn v2 is a just bit better, not sure. My point was to make a noticeable upgrade you have to jump higher than from the node to cxn. 

@ghdprentice if you don’t mind, how did the higher noise floor playing a CD manifest itself? What did you hear?