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Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
Lord of the Flies.  
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@soix yes, I know, we all look the same to you,  
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@soix btw, Alvin?  Did you mean Amir?  
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@soix Lol!  Well there’s your proof!  I assert that the”vast majority agree with me” (though without a poll). You must be right.  What was I thinking?          
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
ok, let’s do substance.  @jji666 said streamers don’t have a sound.  Completely reasonable, consistent with data and science,  Streamers handle a digital data stream, no conversion to analog.  The only possible differences across streamers is jitt... 
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@soix yes, I hate it when someone disagrees with me.  In that moment, I am compelled to tell that person that they don’t know what they’re talking about.  But I do wonder why i have no friends.  hmmmm…    
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@soix anger issues perhaps?  
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@soix who the h are you?  Another audiophile has a different opinion from you.  Dude! Get over it!   
Digital Path to Complete my System
btw, here’s a little “how to” from a few years ago.  Concepts are still relevant:   how to stream  
Digital Path to Complete my System
A lot to unpack here.  For example, do you want to have your CD collection on a NAS connected to your network, with separate streamer and DAC?  Or do you want to have an all-in-one solution; these tend to be pricey, however, and then you’re stuck ... 
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
streamers don’t make a difference.  
Importance of streamer in audio chain
you will definitely notice a difference if you want to.  
why expensive streamers
@mclinnguy  my main point in this whole thread has been that it is very common for many of us to cite “lower noise” to explain differences in sound that we can’t otherwise explain.  but there’s this weird cognitive dissonance among many when conf... 
why expensive streamers
@mitch2  To me, the issue is not whether there’s no jitter, it’s whether there’s a substantial difference in jitter across streamers, how much jitter we’re talking about, and the extent to which different DACs reject jitter from streamers. As I’... 
why expensive streamers
@cleeds  Geez, the second comment was an apology for the first.  Doesn’t anyone even accept apologies anymore?