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Lumin X1 latest Review like we have been saying



For many years we have been touting the Lumin products as being one of the best sounding and best implimented paths to creating a fantastic sound in your system.

We sought to be a Lumin dealer after the A1 came out and pretty much got rave reviews as being the best sounding streamer out there, each successive product was better the new T2 is amazing at its price point and challenges $7k streamer/dacs/

The lastest review https://hometheaterreview.com/lumin-x1-network-player-reviewed/

sums up Lumins history and even offers a comparison of the X1 vs the Total Dac, and DCS and the Aqua Formula, we actually have tested the upgraded Formula V2 with the Statement and it does sound even bettter.
 
Summation the best sound the reviewer ever accheived was with the X1.

We sell some of the worlds best dacs, including T+A, Light Harmonic, Aqua Hif, Naim, Mytek, Bricasti, and with the X1 you have to spend $30-50k to better the X1, it is nice to see that other people are agreeing with exactly what we have been saying all along.

If you are looking for the best sound for the money, rock solid reliability, a fantastic feature set, Tidal, Qbouz, Spotify, Apple Airplay to play Youtube or Soundcloud, OTA upgrades, Roon endpoint, full Mqua, DSD and High data rate upsampling, upconversion and playability, solid build quality, built in volume control, the Lumin products are hard to beat.



Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Lumin dealers
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jorgjean
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From what I read here, these Lumin products seem to be the best that streaming has to offer. It appears they would be a very significant step up over my Bluesound 2i - Benchmark DAC3 setup. 😮 

Is that also true for their Airplay implementation?

Would I currently use Synology 218+ to store my files. I would then best go for the U1?
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lalitk
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^^Don’t just believe the hype, if you’re going to dump $6K in U1 then you should find a way to audition the competing streamers from Innuos, Aurender and Auralic. 
Bluesound is a budget but a very good streamer. I think Innuos ZENmini + LPSU will give you next level of improvement with your existing DAC. Anything beyond that, you will be spending lot more to hear appreciable improvement in sound quality. 

May be audio troy can send you Lumin and Innuos for in-home audition.
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audiotroy OP
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jorgean, you may be confusing our enthusiasm for Lumin’s with our observations on the totality of the subject of streamers and dacs.

Yes the Lumin products are universally praised and are indeed excellent, however we have never said that their products are unbeatable or that someone might prefer the sonic signature or feature set of another product.

If you follow our posts even on this thread, we mentioned we brought in Bricasti’s new M3 dac because it has an analog volume control and digital inputs which are features that the Lumin T2 lacks, as well as an option for a headphone amp.



So if in our tests the Bricasti is better it is also alot more money to gain its sound quality and feature set.

In terms of pure streamers we sell alot of Innous severs for a couple of reasons: the first being many of our clients love the idea of Roon and being able to play with sample rate conversion and whole house audio which are things that Roon does very wel.

The second point: considering the Innous servers are designed to run Roon very well they make an excellent choice to be a Roon Core.

The third point: add to that the built in CD ripper to digitize a persons CD collection

The fourth point, the sound quality of the Innous servers is excellent.

So in the case of a streamer being added to a dac you have to see what each platform offers.

Aurenders servers are excellent however, they do not allow for upsampling or whole house audio control or eq which are features in Roon.

Naim and NAD makes decent servers but the Naim doesn’t allow for Tidal or any streaming it is just a CD library and the NAD Blue Sound Vault and 50.2 are good devices but not built to the ultimate audio quality design modality of the Aurener, Lumin and Innous products.

Hope this helps.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Lumin, Innous, NAD, Naim, dealers
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