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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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kren0006
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Audio doc have you evaluated $2k Teac NT-505?

i have been told it destroys $2.3k LUMIN D2 (no contest) and is just as good as $4.5k Lumin T2.
My guess is you will say you haven’t heard Teac.

Teac is parent of Esoteric so yes in digital they have access to superior tech than Lumin.
NT-505 at $2k is amazing and if add Teac external clock for total of $3.5 k for both performance jumps that much higher and still 1000 saved over T2

Teac even compatible with LUMIN app so interface is identical between the two under comparison
kren0006
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T2 vs NT505 was the question and you quickly tried to change subject by changing to D2 which uses 13 yr old dac and then to X1 which is different level.

The nt505 competes with T2 is what I’ve been told by people who’d compared them and costs less than half as much.

I’d never spend $14k in such a rapidly advancing area where will be obsolete in 3 yrs. much different than amps or speakers where change is slower. I prefer to spend $2k and get dac just as good as $4.5k Lumin
kren0006
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Alright so you admit you haven’t tested the Teac or spoken with anyone who compared it to LUMIN T2, so all of your page-long comments about that specific question are rank speculation.

Just so that’s clear.

That’s why I asked in first line of my First post post If you’d compared them. You should have just said no I haven’t.

I haven’t either but have heard from people who have and said nt505 right there with T2 at less than half cost. So I guess that’s the only direct comparison either of us have. You should get a Teac and test it.

Also I don’t think it helps a dealer’s credibility to say it is “silly” to focus on the dac chip used in a dac. Uhhhh, that’s kind of a critical piece, don’t you think? Not the only piece but a critical one and as new dac chips get released yearly with better and better specs for same cost it is extremely notable when a so-called leader continues to use 13 yr old technology in a fast moving field.
I’m sure that Wolfson was great 13 years ago. So was my Motorola flip phone from same year but I wouldn’t use it today : )


But this is an X1 thread and I’ve diverted too much attention from it already so I’ll sign off. Apologies for the diversion just wondered if a specific comparison had been done and now got the answer. Carry on and enjoy the music



kren0006
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FWIW, WC, the most celebrated and unbiased reviewer on Agon has endlessly raved about Esoteric dacs whereas he has also owned LUMIN and never mentions them in same light
kren0006
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But, and here is the key thing: you are not allowing for the possibility that Lumins could be solidly beaten by something costing much less, as in the example I gave. 
You are essentially saying that is impossible. 
That is the problem people have with the schilling 
kren0006
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For most part I do too. More good than had. Often his posts have ton of good info and I usually like reading them. 
Just have to call out when over the top
kren0006
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Dude I’m not even doubting all of those. 
But if someone comes in and says something half as expensive is as good as a LUMIN you will not accept it. 
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. You won’t know until you A/B. 
WC with more experience than anyone says Esoteric better than LUMIN and he’s not biased like you are as a dealer. Teac is Esoteric-lite so in theory very possible nt505 could beat T2. That’s all I’m saying. But I really do wish you’d test and report because as you mentioned you can get evaluation pieces for free- we can’t
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