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Streamers and software

It's been a battle.  I have had a Bluesound Node 2i for 5 yrs.  I upgraded the power supply.  There is nothing wrong with function or sound.  I switched to Qobuz a few months ago.  I transferred my songs from amazon to Qobuz.  Qobuz works great when using the Bluetooth function.  When I want to play Qobuz thru BluOS, I am missing several thousand songs, called Favorites.  Loading and searching times are not usable.

Finally after 2 months BLUOS says they have no solution.  QOBUZ is working on a direct connect app to the streamer, but no release date.  

So, reluctantly, I started looking at a streamer.  I find several other streamers but have buggy software.

So, from what I see the Innuous pulsar mini has good software I would like to spend as little as I  can but it looks like $1-$2k?  It would be nice to have a linear power supply. Thanks for any suggestions are welcome.

Here is some I looked at.

Holo Audio Red, Ever solo, Innuous, Volumio

 

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zlone
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To preface, this is just my opinion, but I owned an Aurender N10 for awhile and found the software (v4 I think) quite frustrating. The sound was good. I switched to Innuos and found it much more to my liking. The sound was good as well. 
 

As for cables, the used Innuos I bought came with a Transparent USB cable which I used for awhile. I replaced it with a WireWorld Platinum 7 USB cable, a surprising and very significant upgrade. Note that with USB, results can be very DAC dependent, as it offloads clocking to the DAC rather than handling it in the streamer. 

zlone
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@carlsbad2 you went from a copper cable to a digital cable

Assuming you meant 'silver' not 'digital'. Yes, I fully agree that pure silver is excellent for digital for all of the reasons you mention. I want to upgrade my ethernet cable to something similar from WireWorld, but they are quite spendy. 

I am also a fan of the OCC metals, my experience is that it makes a difference.

I also agree that silver plated copper is not the best option for audio applications and I generally avoid it. I think this is where silver gets a bad name. I think that solid silver is probably okay and I am currently trying out some https://silversolids.com/ interconnects, but I am still in the break-in period so cannot comment just yet.

 

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