Streaming Services

Thank you all for the responses! The consensus is Qobuz and I will go with that service.

For me, a tremendous value in creating this thread being that in my newness to streaming I had not even heard of this service before. I am very grateful to now know of it!

For now, the Conrad Johnson HD3 USB DAC I have does have a USB port that I'll hook to my MacBook. Once that's down, I'll begin a next step with equipment upgrade.

Thanks again, everyone!

Best,

Randy

Well, pardon me but in looking back through posts, I see that mike_in_nc stated "I have used many streamers, and I’m happy with my Auralic Aries G1. It can output USB, SPDIF, or AES3 into a DAC".

It can be output to USB - great to know!

Forgive my ineptness here, I started this thread not knowing anything about streamers.

Seeing all these responses is wonderful. This is all new to me and I have been given a lot to go from - thank you everyone! I'm sure others will benefit as well.

I will share that I just bought this Conrad Johnson HD3 USB DAC because it is the same brand as my other electronics (see original post that began this thread + I also have Conrad Johnson DV2B Tube CD player). I thought this could get me going with streaming. CJ puts it this way for this DAC  "The HD3 is an audiophile grade digital to analog converter for use with a computer based audio source". 

This DAC only has a USB input.

Silly Question: Are there Streamers that can connect to a USB only device like this?

Thank you!

Thank you, curious jim for sharing how your using USB to DAC!

I’ll confess that when I started this thread I thought that a streamer or computer’s part in the streaming process was to simply relay a digital signal to a DAC and then the DAC would take that signal and work magic to output a quality analog sound.

I’ve gathered that a streamer’s part is more than that.

Question: What makes a streamer better than another? The ability to...

Thank you!

Thank you, kiwiscott!

Your posts are going to be extremely helpful as I go through my search!

I greatly appreciate the time and thought you put into them to help me out!