didjean wrote: > > > > Recently he has contacted a high-end Hifi shop to ask what he should be > upgrading in order to have an even better sound quality. The owner was > clear: for him the weakest point from his set up was LMS and the Touch. > > > For him, a good streamer would bring a huge quality improvement even if > connected digitally to an external DAC. > > He told him to either buy a Bluesound Node 2i (with or without the Teac > DAC) or move to an Innuos Zen Mini mk3 (with LMS or Roon) that could be > equipped with an external powersupply. > > > I am not sure I understand why LMS/Touch connected to a DAC or any other > solutions to the same DAC could be better: at the end of the day, that's > the DAC who will do the job, isn't it? > > Any recommendation I could give to my friend? >
As with other replies, the advice is to ignore the shop, the guy is talking nonsense. The hard part is probably getting your friend to believe this as there's so much repetition of this sort of rubbish out there (review websites, youtube, most audio forums). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tw99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51684 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113335 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
