Please be gentle with me! 🙏


I am a vinyl diehard and know very little of the streaming world.

My son has just bought his 1st amp and speakers a Leak 230 integrated and some JBL 4312G speakers and is currently streaming his music using an Android phone via the USB C on his phone into the USB B input on the amp, using the built in DAC on the amp. So the question is would something like a Bluesound Node N130 as a straight streamer be an audible improvement to his phone?

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Showing 1 response by mfili35

I doubt it.

I don’t know what type of dac i I ordered the blue node and found that it only streamed music that was in my library on my Android using Amazon unlimited music which sounds great and as good as anything else.. (yes I’ve tried others). I found that if I wanted to listen to a song that wasn’t in my library, the Blue Node wouldn’t play it until I saved the song to my library. I am using an older Denon 4308 which has a powerful amplifier section to a pair of Kef R11s. I then hooked up my Fiio K5 pro which is a great headphone amplifier (around $200 and looks like it uses the same DAC as your leak) using k5s pre outs to the Denon, yes I am using a USB from my phone to the Fiio but I felt the Fiio sounded better then the BN. The sound stage was wide deep and layered, and instruments separated. I can tell you I’m not looking for anything better