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| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @wsrrsw thanks for pontificating! And I too love the artwork. Probably 75% or more of my listening is jazz, bass jazz, sax jazz, contemporary jazz, fusion jazz, hard bop. The rest is a mix of classic rock and more modern rock. The streamer &am... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 Excellent input from everyone, thank you all very much! So much experience. I’ve learned a lot and I’m sure that other audiophiles will also in the future. I keep rereading this thread. I’ve planned to get an EtherRegen for quite a while but am o... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @mournbladeiv thanks for reminding me of this if I decide to go the one-box route! I get the ads from that big mid-west retailer that we all love and have read a few ads about the HiFi Rose equipment. Because I’m looking at upgrading my streamer ... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @wsrrsw @lalitk Roon capability isn’t a key decision point but it could be if the new OS really sucked and I wanted a change. Thanks for the heads up. | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @marco1 almost exact experience I was looking for. Thank you! @wsrrsw what were your Bluesound and Sbooster upgrades? Great comparisons, thanks! @ghdprentice thanks! Someone who has researched and owned different streamers especially several... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @leorousseau DAC, power supplies and streamers. They’re all integral to the thread when discussing a Node vs something else. @doni thanks for the clarity. It helped. @gdnrbob Bob, the DAC is the elephant in my audio room. I’m not sure how muc... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @leorousseau there’s many more components on the board you choose than the PD Creative board. Very interesting! Also, your board and LPS are a really good value. The PD creative board is reasonable but the Sbooster is about an additional $400USD. ... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @doni, PS upgrade? Wouldn’t a PS upgrade for the Lumin make it even better? The N150 comes stock with linear PS. @everyone, my digital system is Cary SLI-80 with mostly Gold Lion tubes, Chord Qutest DAC, PD Creative modified BS Node 2i, Meadowla... | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? Sony X800M2 is used for movies in a HT system. Audio and video is better than the Samsung 8200 it replaced. Audio is surprisingly much better than an Oppo 103 I still have. Video also but that’s not really a fair comparison. | |
| Bricasti M5 or Lumin U1 Mini or ? How did it go? I’m very interested in upgrading from my Bluesound Node 2i and it’s power board mod with LPS. That definitely improved the stock 2i. The M5, a Lumin U1 Mini and maybe an Aurender N150 are in consideration. I only do streaming as ... | |
| Upgrade from modified Bluesound Node 2i and linear power supply (LPS) ? Sbooster installed on Node 2i. Used a long-unused Shunyata Copperhead power cable for it. I expect a 100 hr burn-in required for the Sbooster and more for the Copperhead but I’m pleasantly surprised at how good it sounds after two hours! It’s alre... | |
| Upgrade from modified Bluesound Node 2i and linear power supply (LPS) ? Wow! I really appreciate everyone’s input! I’m planning to purchase another Sbooster for the BS Node 2i. The first one is on the Qutest. I think I’ll wait for the chip shortage to sort itself prior to moving to another streamer platform. Plus I w... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming The FMC-fiber-FMC experiment is over for me. It was a definite net negative to sound quality in my system. I don’t know why that happened while almost everyone else reported good results because it was the exact opposite for me. I gave it 4 da... | |
| Bluesound Node 2 Which model do you have? You mentioned Node 2 but that’s really old. Do you have the newer Node 2i or the newest Node (just “Node” no number)? My experience is with the Node 2i and ethernet is definitely better. The wifi chip is noisy with EMI/RF... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @romney80 and everyone else - thanks for the tip! I installed the two FMCs and fiber this afternoon. It sounded horrid (extremely tilted up) the first hour but then started to mellow. I was curious about the burn-in time because it’s still tilte... |