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| Basic question about power/watts I’m afraid at a $1000 budget you may be doomed to failure. Not only because of the amp, but also because you apparently also need a preamp — do not neglect the importance of the preamp. Your most cost-effective option is probably an integrated a... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience I just wanted to do a separate post for those who may want to stream Qobuz through the iFi Zen as Qobuz as of yet cannot stream direct to the Zen. At first I thought maybe I made a horrible mistake getting the Zen as my sole source for streaming i... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience BTW please ignore silly comment that a LPS for digital audio is snake oil. Utter nonsense. Best wishes. @charles1dad Yeah, I know. I was just trying to be nice instead of my more normally cantankerous self. I use the iFi iPowerX power supply ... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience @charles1dad I use the SPDIF from my Oppo as a transport so obviously could be better. But I will say that steaming with the Zen Stream is vastly superior in every way over playing CDs in my current setup. Not even close. | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? but I have a hard time seeing a commensurate increase in sound quality from a good DAC/streaming setup to a $5k CD setup. @tylermunns I did too until I actually got my dedicated streamer up and running. My streaming quality now far surpasses... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience LPS for digital is snake oil. That is not the impression I get. I read plenty of reviews where using an upgraded power supply greatly improves the performance of the iFi Zen Stream, including several posters here. | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience @pdreher Nice system. I’m using the iPowerX and haven’t had the courage to pull it out to make a comparison, but by all accounts the upgraded power supply makes a big improvement. Love to hear your thoughts if/when you get the new PS. | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? @sbank That’s an excellent idea that I will definitely pursue at some point. | |
| Musician pegasus DAC or Denafrips Aries 2 @vthokie83 Please do update. I’d be very interested, and frankly I’d be surprised if this doesn’t produce a relatively large improvement that results in near end-game performance. But that’s just a guess. | |
| Purifi v Gan amps? Although from what I have heard Purifi amps do have a sound and it is characterised by by sounding veryclear and detailed but also quite flat/2D and having very poor timing and musical communication. Heard from where? I heard the world was fla... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? One thing overlooked is all the time, money, blood, sweat and tears it can take to assemble a fine streaming set up. Mastering that, how could anyone say it's not as good as playing a CD? All I did was add the iFi Zen Stream (with upgraded powe... | |
| Musician pegasus DAC or Denafrips Aries 2 My Pontus II was better than every DAC up to $6,000 that I tested or heard.....including the more expensive Venus II. @vthokie83 Yeah, I recognize there are some superior parts/design advantages of the Pontus ll over the Pegasus (not to menti... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience What DAC(s) are you feeding the iFi, and do you feel it is now close or even better to your CD playback? @blisshifi I’m feeding the Zen Stream into a Musician Pegasus, and its not even close — the streaming is now far superior to CD. Didn’t se... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? Are there a substantial number of well recorded performances recorded on CD which can’t be found via streaming services, or where the streaming version is sonically inferior to the CD? No, but the ones that I have — probably around 20 CDs or so... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? My streaming now sounds better than playing CDs. The only reason I keep my transport around is to play stuff that isn’t available to stream. |