Hi all,
Any compare reports of the following
1. Microrendu with battery power supply
2. Antipodes
3. Audio Alchemy DMP-1
4. Lumin U1
Want compares to any Aurender model or Auralic Aries as I know their sonics.
My experience is that the quality is dependent on the DAC you have attached.
Let's assume it has a good USB. So which of those do good USB outputs, which do good AES, and will the Rednet Dante card beat these?
What are your requirements? All three can sound good. Dante enabled devices are going to be the most expensive as they are studio devices and multi-channel. I think there is one consumer piece that uses Dante.
Hi all,
Any compare reports of the following
1. Microrendu with battery power supply
2. Antipodes
3. Audio Alchemy DMP-1
4. Lumin U1
Want compares to any Aurender model or Auralic Aries as I know their sonics.
May want to consider a Bluesound Node 2. Its very inexpensive, (approximately 500 US). It's been awhile since I had the Aurelic Aries, however I prefer the Bluesound interface to the Aries, and it's sound may be a little more "relaxed" than the Aries. Even has a decent, for the money,on board MQA Dac. I however choose to use an outboard Dac.
Cheers....
No Melco in the shortlist?
Also the Raspberry Pi with a linear power supply is what I consider the bargain of recent times. Can play from a network file share and also can link directly in my case to Spotify Premium.
Don't forget a linear supply for the internet router too.
Thanks
Cyclopse
Yes, Melco too...Will get to hear Melco and CAD CAT against Aurender at some point.
Bonzo, you may want to check out Soul of the Music SMS 200 (SOTM sMS 200) streamer. A friend of mine picked one up recently and it sounds more than merely good going through the DAC in his Calsse 800 pre amp. It does DSD up to 256 as well as the normal PCM, streams tidal and is Roon ready. Available from Elite Audio in Leven for £450 which includes a years subscription to Roon until the 28 February (tomorrow). It gets great reviews and there is an outboard battery power supply (another £450) should anyone want to improve it further. I believe there is an outboard master clock coming out for it in the near future also. Somewhat of a bargain, I may get one myself to play with.
Ok, I thought rednet Dante was low cost for 2channel. I just want good quality PCM and DSD, with additional upsampling to DSD, decent interface, connection to tidal/qobuz.
Already compared aurender to Auralic and prefer the former x100.
If you can use SPDIF then the Rednet 3 will cost you about 900-1000 USD. I got the Rednet 16 (about 1500-1600 USD) and together with the Mutec MC3+USB, connected with AES cable to my Berkeley Ref dac it betters my old Berkeley Alpha USB converter by a great margin. If you are interested in Dante I would recommend reading the tread at www.head-fi.org. There is a guy there who has compared the MicroRendu with the Rednet 16, in favour of the later.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/806827/aud...-aes67-sets-a-new-standard-for-computer-audio
Tommy
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