Rose RS250 Streamer/Dac?

Can’t speak to the ROSE 250, however the ROSE 150 (their flagship model, 5 K MSRP) is superb.
Has an excellent built in Dac , using the ESS 9038 Pro chip with a Femto Clock (don’t know the value/ model of The Femto). The resultant sound is very good. It has a very transparent, smooth and liquid presentation that’s leans slightly on the warm side of the spectrum. Most Dac’s utilizing the ESS 9038 PRO, tend to be on the neutral to slightly cool side of the spectrum, but HI FI ROSE had done an excellent job of tuning their Dac implementation.
However the “star” of the show is the Transport capability of the ROSE 150. It has numerous connectivity capabilities, and offers DAC OUT to allow the use of your own Dac ( AES, I2S (both DVI and RJ 45), and Coax.
The unit also features a 14 inch OLED type, touch screen display , with 4 K resolution. All in all a huge bang for the buck.

Cheers.....

Thanks, that's helpful info!

I am a proud owner of a HiFi Rose RS250 Streamer/DAC.

I auditioned the RS150 first. Quite a wonderful experience, both in strict audio quality terms and a surfeit of features (many I've never seen on any device before).

Quite a pricey device, so I thought I would return it and try the RS250, roughly half the cost. Bottom line, I kept the RS250 and sold my previous streamer and separate DAC. Audio quality, for me at least, was virtually indistinguishable from the RS150. And no, it doesn't have a single Balanced input/output. But neither do I on my current tube amp. All the same features, except for the aforementioned Balanced, also no ARC HDMI input or AES. The RS250 is a certified Roon Ready component and has MQA. It was immediately recognized by my ROCK server as a Roon endpoint. I continue to be amazed at the quality of sound and abundance of features. And everything works together very well. This unit has a real remote AND a full-function Apple App.

 

Didn't John Atkinson review it this month in Stereophile?