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| New streamer? N150 vs U2 Decision made. I pulled the wallet-trigger on an Aurender N150. I’ll investigate DACs and decide whether to upgrade that after I evaluate the N150 on the Chord Qutest DAC. @marco1 did you find that a specific USB output on the N150 sounds best... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 @rockrider thank you for that link! @leorousseau best way for decent higher resolution jazz on BlueSound is to program in a custom URL on TuneIn custom stations using JazzRadio Premium. That way you can get 320k mp3 streams. I use these streams f... | |
| 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... |