I I've had the 150b for about three weeks and loving it although it provides more options that I'll ever use. I originally had a Sonos Port which was only intended to get experience streaming in my 2 channeI set up anyway. The service I used was Napster. I also looked at Cambridge Audio, and listened to the Meitner. The 150b allowed me balanced in/out which was important. To date I've only used Qobuz, Rose FM, and Rose Radio. All sound great coming out of my Maggies. I was also able to retire Napster, and my Benchmark DAC 1. I have had issues with the hand held remote. The original/replacement are not working. The fact that they are not necessary isn't the point though. This thing is a keeper
My thoughts on the HiFi Rose 150B
Well, after the honeymoon wore off I ended sending the HiFiRose 150 back. It boiled down to how I’d use it and it just wasn’t 3k better than my Auralic Aries G1. The Rose is a great piece with tons of features and it sounded great. The video features (RoseTube, Tidal music videos) is certainly cool along with the display and all the other things it can do but streaming Qobuz and Tidal it did one thing noticeably better and that was MQA which I figured it would. My Anthem isn’t MQA certified so using my Auralic USB into it doesn’t give me the full MQA experience but listening to Tidal SD and Qobuz HD/SD it was pretty close. I could have added a TV to my music room to fully enjoy what the Rose does but I have a great movie/video system so it’s not something I was ultimately willing to do. So in the end, I don’t have anything bad to say about the 150, it’s built really well, sounds great and has tons of features but it doesn’t fit my needs.