Lumin U1 vs Lumin U1 mini + sbooster?

@mrcypruz

If you get your hands on dcs please let us know how it compares. I would be most interested.

I use a Lumin as a streamer to my DAC.

There are other ways to increase the performance rather than going from a U1 mini to a U1.

The power cord will make a big difference.

Grounding the Lumin with an Entreq box will significantly lower the noise floor.

And when I upgraded the digital cable to a Black Cat Tron, the Lumin took a quantum leap.

Out of all the tweaks you mentioned, the only I didn’t do was to ground the U1 Mini. Now imagine if you do the same to the U1, you’ll surely pull even further ahead of the U1 Mini.

Btw, that Black Cat Tron digital cable is the same price as the U1 Mini, I can only imagine it doing wonders with the U1.

The U1 Mini + Black Cat Tron digital came puts you really close to the U1 price.

Interesting topic. I just had my Ayre QB9 upgraded to a Twenty. I bought my QB9 after it was first introduced in 2010 and that was a big deal back then. I find the premise of the 432 EVO Master intriguing but I’m not in the market at 11,000 Euros. By the time I will be able to make a large purchase, everything technological will have changed. It wasn’t long ago that MP 3 was the only file format we could download, so in ten years, these transports might seem archaic. When I bought my reference stereo, I purchased an ASR Emitter 2 amp and have never regretted it but an amp is far from being a digital streamer or a DAC or even a CD player. I think I’ll buy one of Cullen Cable’s Mac mini power cables and see if that makes an improvement. It’s the law of diminishing returns at this point and since I don’t stream a music server just isn’t pragmatic. However, if anyone might recommend an affordable way towards making a DAC (being used with a server, or DVD player) sound exceptionally better, please let me know.