i agree with you pretty much, except to say that a superior clock in the streamer can help some downstream dacs sonically ... this depends on connectivity scheme to chosen dac...
I'm only repeating what the distributor Aamir told me when I asked the same question with regards to using as streamer only or combo. I was willing to pay the difference when I called him. I've had mine playing out of the analog outputs since I unpacked it Friday afternoon and it does seem to be improving incrementally and sounds pretty good on it's own. I'm let it keep going until this time next Sunday to see how much more it improves if any. |
@jjss49 Curious if you have any updates to share. I've got the basic version and have compared it to the HiFi Rose 150b as both a stand-alone unit and as a streamer only, I'm also going to compare it to my Optical Rendu as a streamer and also to my Innuous Zenith MkIII, but probably won't get to those for a couple of weeks. |