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Lumin X1 latest Review like we have been saying



For many years we have been touting the Lumin products as being one of the best sounding and best implimented paths to creating a fantastic sound in your system.

We sought to be a Lumin dealer after the A1 came out and pretty much got rave reviews as being the best sounding streamer out there, each successive product was better the new T2 is amazing at its price point and challenges $7k streamer/dacs/

The lastest review https://hometheaterreview.com/lumin-x1-network-player-reviewed/

sums up Lumins history and even offers a comparison of the X1 vs the Total Dac, and DCS and the Aqua Formula, we actually have tested the upgraded Formula V2 with the Statement and it does sound even bettter.
 
Summation the best sound the reviewer ever accheived was with the X1.

We sell some of the worlds best dacs, including T+A, Light Harmonic, Aqua Hif, Naim, Mytek, Bricasti, and with the X1 you have to spend $30-50k to better the X1, it is nice to see that other people are agreeing with exactly what we have been saying all along.

If you are looking for the best sound for the money, rock solid reliability, a fantastic feature set, Tidal, Qbouz, Spotify, Apple Airplay to play Youtube or Soundcloud, OTA upgrades, Roon endpoint, full Mqua, DSD and High data rate upsampling, upconversion and playability, solid build quality, built in volume control, the Lumin products are hard to beat.



Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Lumin dealers
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jorgjean
78 posts
 
Ok, i will give it a go with upsampling.

jorgjean
78 posts
 
From what I read here, these Lumin products seem to be the best that streaming has to offer. It appears they would be a very significant step up over my Bluesound 2i - Benchmark DAC3 setup. 😮 

Is that also true for their Airplay implementation?

Would I currently use Synology 218+ to store my files. I would then best go for the U1?
jorgjean
78 posts
 
Shure, each situation is different and decisions to be made in that context. 
I find Apple Music very convenient and therefore I use Airplay a lot. Thats why I am asking whether the benefits of a superior streamer or transport also apply to Airplay? 
I am very happy with the Benchmark DAC and also have a Benchmark ADC to digitize vinyls. No intention to move away.  
For me the upgrading of the Preamplifier brought a noticable improvement, it helped on the streaming side including Airplay aswell as on the analog side. That investment was worthwile.


jorgjean
78 posts
 
@audiotroy:
I prefer Apple Music over Tidal. In my opinion it offers superior user guidance / playlists. It synchronises easily with all my Apple devices. 
As for SQ, difficult to compare but for shure good recordings sound good on either services and bad ones will sound bad, whatever resolution. As we all know blind test have shown that human can only hear a difference if the resolution goes beyond V -2 which is below 44kHz , 192 kbit/s. Apple is well within this spec with 256 kbit/s. Listen for example to some of Allan Taylor recordings which are usually of high quality, they sound great over Airplay. 

Roon, yes i did take a yearly subscription. The interface is great, very informative. I could probably find the same info in Wikipedia. As for SQ of Roon I must confess that I was disappointed, it sounded thin and liveless, compared to playing through the Bluesound App. I don‘t understand the hype, maybe I am missing something. 
Sounds all a bit negative, sorry for that. 
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