The Lumin U1 Mini is a wonderful device. I use a Lumin U1 as my main streamer and it’s a keeper. Lumin’s support is great, their streamers sound better than anything close to their price and they support Roon, MQA, DSD and they have the best app I have used.
which network streamer without DAC?
I've pretty much narrowed it down to three:
Lumin Mini
Sonore UltraRendu
Zen Mini
Leaning towards the Zen Mini. The advantage with the Zen Mini is that I can upgrade the power supply at a later date. I want to use the DAC in my MBL corona player (the DAC has upsampling to 96K - no more). I would like to stream hi-res files thru Qobuz. Any thoughts? .
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I am having the Zen Mini together with RME ADI-2 DAC. Works very well. I use the Zen almost entirely for streaming, but I have a few albums on the disk that are not available on Tidal. Only complaint is that it is a little slow in starting up. Maybe I should just leave it on always, but I don’t. The blue light is not that nice. I was contemplating the Project Pre Box as it is MQA enabled. I run Roon as well, btw. |
Have you looked at the capabilities of the Sonare opticalModule. I am learning about this now and it seems like something to understand before buying the units mentioned above. https://www.sonore.us/systemoptique.html |