Streamer Recommendations


If all my music is going thru my desktop PC, to my cloud, to IPAD, to streamer to McIntosh C-53/Martin Logan Renaissance and a couple JL Audio Fathams set-up, what is the best music quality streamer anyone can recommend.  I need nothing but the best quality music a streamer in the $1,500 to $3,000 range...no streaming services, not multi-room set-ups, etc.  Just great music out of this set-up.

bheyamoto

You have your music library on your computer and you want a streamer to play it over your network, correct?

You have decent options and the best value is going used

Streamers with good sound quality and UI - Auralic Aries G1, Aurender N150, Aurender N10 if you’re lucky (could be closer to $4,000), Innuos. Lumin U2 Mini or U1 are good streamers but UI sucks.

I generally like to get the computer out of the picture. I think (don’t guarantee) that you’ll have better performance if you get a streamer that has storage or accepts an external hard drive so the music cna be streamed directly from storage. I could name a few but not in your price range.

If the Innuos pulse recommended above can store your music, the Sense app is well liked by users.

 

Music --> PC --> cloud --> ipad --> streamer --> amp/speaker/sw ??

WHY ?? when you could just do

Music --> external ssd (galvanic isolated USB) --> streamer --> amp/speaker/sw

much cleaner, less noise, shorter signal path,

right now ext. ssd is much cheaper per TB.