Sell the Eversolo dac , buy a Bluesound Icon and use the McIntosh DA2 DAC in the preamp. Its a really good DAC. That's what I would do. Don't buy an Eversolo streamer their FW is garbage.
Need to get off of bluetooth.... looking for a wifi streamer for my budget
My current system is a McIntosh C12000 preamp and a 861 Moon amp.
I have a Eversolo Z8. I want to get off of blue tooth (streaming from my phone) and get onto wifi. So I need a streamer.
I know this sounds crazy... but I stretched my budget and it will take about a year for me to recover. So, what would like to do is buy a streamer (used hopefully) to tie me over temp.
Can anyone recommend a wifi streamer brand/model for my setup that I might find used for *around* $500? I would consider a streamer/dac combo if the dac was better than the one in the Eversolo Z8 because that one is pretty good spec wise (it has the ESS Pro)
As a temporary stopgap. I’d get a Bluesound you can do it from $350 to less than $1000. Sounds like you realize to match the sound quality of your Mac / Moon you should be fishing in a much higher level pond. It seems your are taking the approach I took long ago to get a great system, one really good component at a time.... building to a real audiophile system.
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@dman777 apple music and pandora are not the best quality sources. For $500 you won’t get anything decent. But even the bluesound node with tidal or Qobuz should be better than what you have now. |
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You can export an Apple playlist and then import it into Roon and/or BluOS. Not sure how effective it is and you would still have to get a subscription to Tidal or Qobuz as well as to Roon, if you want to go that route (which would maybe take you past your ~$500 budget). Or just stay with Bluesound, and BluOS. |
You might look into the iFi Zen Stream. It retails at US $399 and has a 30-day return period (in the US). I have not tried one, but I've built a couple of RaspberryPi-based streamers and though they were very good to excellent in a revealing system. Anyway IMO a lot of streamer performance depends on the quality of the downstream DAC; how good it is, and how well it rejects jitter, noise, etc.
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The Bluesound Node is a good way to break ground on getting started. And if you check online, a number of dealers are selling the previous generation for 300 or slightly more. The money you save from the 500 in your budget can go toward a good digital cable, and check around, e.g. The Cable Co for a good used digital cable. Then you can get acquainted with Qobuz or Tidal and expand from there. good luck |