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Ready to move onto next stage of streaming

So for over a year I have been streaming Tidal via my Bluesound Vault 2.
Now I bought this mainly to rip all my cds to but after "discovering" Tidal I find that I rarely even playback from the Vault hard drive, I usually just find it on Tidal even if I know I have it in ripped format.

It boils down to 2 main source areas for me now,vinyl and streaming. Very happy with my analog as I do not even try to compare the two just let them happily coexist knowing they are different.

But here’s where I am at. I am sure there is probably a better setup for streaming Tidal with better sq than the Vault now.
However it still has to be as user friendly as the Vault to operate for the other denizens of chateaux Uberwaltz!
No computer science geniuses here!
Needs to be as simple as the Bluos app is right now for all to use.
Any suggestions that again does NOT revolve around any mac or pc setup.
Thank you
uberwaltz

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lalitk
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You could consider Aurender A10, but how much improvement you would yield by spending 4x is contingent upon your system and your ears. 

A10 is pretty amazing for all it does at $5K price point.
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@uberwaltz

If you’re already using an external DAC, I would sit tight. However, you’re missing out on full MQA decoding by using Digi Coax output.

You may not care about MQA but I am curious if you have compared the analog vs digital into 2170 DAC to see if MQA files sounds better?

My N10 / ARC DAC9 via AES/EBU easily trumps Vault2 / ARC LS28 via analog RCA (sorry, I know it’s not a fair comparison).

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@uberwaltz,

I get that, 2170 has a very high quality DAC so it should sound better.

“To get full MQA benefit right now I would likely need to insert another MQA capable DAC between the Vault and the 2170”

You can try Mytek Brooklyn, I heard it’s pretty good.
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