Lumin X1 dont see many virtual audiogon systems with this?

I use an etherregen, as it facilitates the optical connection.  Beyond that I am not sure what the hell it does.  But I can't figure that out because I'd lose the optical connection ability if I remove it.  Maybe I should go back to coaxial or RCA and avoid optical.  But then wouldn't that introduce lots of noisiness from the outer world.  I really like optical as it probably reduces noise.

I got the X1 because of the dac and its ability to get along with the lumin.  I hate the idea of dealing with all the various separate dacs out there. So many rabbit holes.  And also wanted to avoid all the connectivity challenges and rabbit holes.

It's a fine streamer dac.  There are so many other places worthy of more attention in my system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ps direct stream is just a dac.  Lumin x1 is abit more.

So lumin x1 is not liked by audiophiles? So seems this is not a very popular component, ie. Lumin x1. Who dont more buy this?

so tv optical cant be input to thie lumin x1?  What stream allows optical from a rv?

Lumin ap doesnt have commentary about albums which is a big deal.

why use lumin ap when roon is available??

Great comment.

why would luman ap create better sq vs roon?


 i am a roon lifer that uses qobuz.   Miss very good playlists on spotify which i use roon. Wonderful that spotify direct is on lumin. 

Seems signal processing is dampened when using roon ap.   Not sure why this happens.  

Thanks very much.
I have a chord tt2 and interested in the x1 dac. Good to hear a separate dac with an x1 via usb works well. I am planning to go thru preouts on a nad n m17 v2i when connecting the x1 to start out. Have a stereo preamp but hoping nad will work out in lieu of a stereo preamp, but may want to have tubes in the mix. Hate all the connectivity issues when switching between ht and stereo.

can u get x1 without psu?  

Diablo sounds interesting.

I had previously purchased a separate dac but found the connectivity issues makes implementation of a dac complicated and ideally an integrated situation where dac and streamer combined works is worth pursuing,  the X one is Superb by coming with an excellent dac.  I have it connected to a line stage.

Any chance to avoid rabbit holes is worth doing the misery of purchasing various dacs is incredibly annoying.