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I recently started enjoying hi res music. I have been streaming Tidal & Qobuz on a Roon Server and that has worked great.
I don’t currently have any hi res files. For now all content will be streams from Tidal & Qobuz.
I have a dedicated Home Theater room that has a Marantz AV8801 as the prepro, B&K Ref amps and Triad LCR’s. The room had been professionally calibrated.
I have gone back and forth if I want my streamer to include a DAC as I will likely be using the DSP in the AV8801. Not sure if the outboard DAC is a good fit with what would be a digital to analog to digital & back to analog signal path. I most likely will go digital out into the digital coax of the AV8801.
I guess a downside to no DAC is I miss the second unfold of the MQA streams. Not sure if that’s a big deal as most of the masters I have played have been below 24/96.
After looking at different product lines I am leaning towards the Lumin gear. The U1 Mini seems to be a great fit for me but the D2 is just slightly more and could probably be had for a very similar price.
My Questions:
1) Should I get the D2 for flexibility down the road?
2) As just streamers are the Mini and the D2 the same or is the mini better a just a streamer?
3) In a setup like mine is there a sizeable advantage to stepping up to the U1 or T2?
4) Not to complicate things but any other gear I should be looking at?
I don’t currently have any hi res files. For now all content will be streams from Tidal & Qobuz.
I have a dedicated Home Theater room that has a Marantz AV8801 as the prepro, B&K Ref amps and Triad LCR’s. The room had been professionally calibrated.
I have gone back and forth if I want my streamer to include a DAC as I will likely be using the DSP in the AV8801. Not sure if the outboard DAC is a good fit with what would be a digital to analog to digital & back to analog signal path. I most likely will go digital out into the digital coax of the AV8801.
I guess a downside to no DAC is I miss the second unfold of the MQA streams. Not sure if that’s a big deal as most of the masters I have played have been below 24/96.
After looking at different product lines I am leaning towards the Lumin gear. The U1 Mini seems to be a great fit for me but the D2 is just slightly more and could probably be had for a very similar price.
My Questions:
1) Should I get the D2 for flexibility down the road?
2) As just streamers are the Mini and the D2 the same or is the mini better a just a streamer?
3) In a setup like mine is there a sizeable advantage to stepping up to the U1 or T2?
4) Not to complicate things but any other gear I should be looking at?