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upgrade advice

Hi
i bought the Hegel h160 integrated amplifier with pair of Spendor D7 loudspeakers.
the source is bluesound node 2 .
speakers cables are VOVOX vocalis. all other cables are regular.
i want to upgrade my sound and wonder what would be the best way to start.
to change my power cable,my digital cable,speakers cable or buy a better external DAC  than the hegel internal.
thaks for your advice
yansad

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kalali
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I'm following this thread with great interest since I'm on a similar upgrade path except I'm using the Bluesound's internal DAC and streaming HiFi Tidal wirelessly. The funny thing is when I asked a while back, most folks seemed to think the Bluesound DAC was fairly decent. I guess it's all relative. Does any of the components mentioned above allow wireless streaming?

Question for OP: Have you compared the Bluesound internal DAC with your Hegel DAC? Just curious.

Thanks.

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kalali
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It sounds like a reasonable upgrade path is use the Node 2 as a wireless streaming transport and feed a better DAC using its optical/coax outputs. I suppose the same DAC could be used to upgrade a CD player sound as well. Makes it a little easier to justify the cost for a good unit.
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