Several years ago, I ripped my CD collection (about 10,000 tracks) to an Innous Zenith MKII streamer. It took me a while! I retired my McIntosh CD player and haven’t looked back.
I’ve had no issues playing FLAC, DSD, and streaming via the Zenith to a Matrix x-SPDIF 2 to my DirectStream DAC. I’ve got a decent system and love the way it sounds. I’m finished buying stereo equipment and physical media.
The convenience of having so much quality sounding music at my fingertips was worth the trouble of ripping my collection to FLAC. On rare occasion, I’ll record one of my old school albums (that you can’t find on-line) to my media laptop, burn a CD, and store it on the Zenith. I even went so far as to record a couple of reels that I made back in the 80’s to a computer, burned them to CD, and stored them on the Zenith.
Being able to create custom Roon playlists from Tidal, Qobuz, or anything on the Zenith is pretty neat. I’m 73. At this point in my life, I'm just trying to enjoy the music!
I’ve had no issues playing FLAC, DSD, and streaming via the Zenith to a Matrix x-SPDIF 2 to my DirectStream DAC. I’ve got a decent system and love the way it sounds. I’m finished buying stereo equipment and physical media.
The convenience of having so much quality sounding music at my fingertips was worth the trouble of ripping my collection to FLAC. On rare occasion, I’ll record one of my old school albums (that you can’t find on-line) to my media laptop, burn a CD, and store it on the Zenith. I even went so far as to record a couple of reels that I made back in the 80’s to a computer, burned them to CD, and stored them on the Zenith.
Being able to create custom Roon playlists from Tidal, Qobuz, or anything on the Zenith is pretty neat. I’m 73. At this point in my life, I'm just trying to enjoy the music!