Correct, never met a dlna playback device that is as satisfying to use as an LMS end point. Add the colour touchscreen and numerous android/iPhone apps and it's game over, frankly. Win for the squeezeboxes.
As for sound quality, I'm extremely happy with my SBT, Mytek DAC and Supernait amp combo. (I stopped using the built-in DAC on the Supernait because the mytek sounds subtlely different, in a good way, to me.) I demoed the Cyrus amps but found them not to my tastes, and I've never really liked a Marantz amp long enough to put the batteries in the remote.. but they are all options which may work for you.. or may not! I demoed the NAD D7050 too. I think Arcam and Cambridge Audio may well also have digital amps, as do a few other brands. For reference I could not hear any difference in audio quality using the same setup fed digital data from a Chromecast audio, but that's obvious: sound character is determined in the analogue domain. I prefer the SBT as a digital source however. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
