My suggestion is don't even consider wiireless.
Putting a high performance DAC downstream of a wireless streamer is like trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle with 2% of the pieces missing.
Streamer suggestions with both wireless and wired connections
There are necessary components in our systems like speakers and amplifiers, which are to be bought. At the same time, since one can use a computer to stream 0s and 1s, is it justified to invert 5k or > on a streamer?
I am using a Blue sound Nide 2i streamer (not as a dac though) for already several years, sometimes I use my computer and actually I note no essential difference in sound quality. Some of you claim a night and day difference between SQ of different streamers. So I want to find out if I am really streaming constantly at night. I have no convenient Ethernet connection close to my audio system, besides would like to compare the defferences in SQ with wireless and wired connections.
Please help to create daylight in my streaming environment
Showing 2 responses by carlsbad2
@niodari I meant 2% and that is probably an exaggeration. We audiophiles spend inordinate amounts of money on the last 1%. Whenever anyone posts a tweek here they are talking about something to make just a tiny improvement. So if you're ok streaming with 1% of the music being dropped bits that are filled in by the streamer interpolating and putting the best guess where that bit of music should have been, that's fine. when you compare to CD, are you using a transport and the same DAC? When people say they compare to CD, it is hard to reall make have useful data if they are using the onboard DAC in a traditional CD player, which is usually inferior. Jerry |