@jaytor Thanks for sharing your experience. I had my Sonore Optical Rendu streamer feeding the secondary 2-channel system in my home office. A couple of months ago, I moved the Sonore to the primary system in the media room, and using Chromecast in the study as a stopgap measure until I buy a better streamer. I was thinking of buying another opticalRendu, but I find your opinion of the Gaia intriguing. Probably need to do a bit more digging. Thank you for sharing.
Has Anybody Had Success Going from Ethernet Streaming to USB Streaming?
In my system I use the Ayon Audio S-5 Network Player/DAC/Preamp which is feed by a router/EtherREGEN/QNAP NAS drive all connect by three Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 Twinax Ethernet cables and I’m wondering if anybody replaced their NAS with a NUC server with USB output into a LKS, Gustard, or Matrix DDC (USB to I2S converter)? My Ayon Audio S-5 has a I2S input. Does anybody have any input as to wether the NUC running Linex with a USB output would exceed the performance of my current set-up?