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In Reply to: RE: MicroRendu is in the house! posted by Ivan303 on July 23, 2017 at 20:23:49
Excellent!
I've seen a handful of lightly used microRendu up on Audiogon recently. Now's a great time to buy the original at 1/2 the price of a new ultraRendu unless you think the ultraRendu will be a jaw dropping improvement over the original. ;-)
I suspect that audible differences between network streamers in general will not be 'huge' in a true apples-to-apples setup comparison where you 'drop-in' one streamer for another.... all other variables being the same......
Same power source (if possible) on the streamers, using the same network interface on the streamers, same interface to the same DAC with same digital cable, and of course all the same downstream components.
I will reiterate my personal observation that bigger differences will be heard among different DACs, assuming there is nothing completely mucked up with the streamers being compared.
In any case, enjoy!
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Doubt if that comparison will ever really happen as the Pi is S/PDIF and the uRendu is USB, even hooking the Pi up to a S/PDIF to USB converter (which I plan to do, as I have borrowed one to play with for a while).
Someday I may try to kluge the I2S lurking somewhere in the Pi and feed it into the I2S RJ-45 input to my Audio-GD DAC.
Just for fun and for no other reason, I plan to solder an optional BNC connector for the S/PDIF output of the HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro board, as my DAC also has a BNC input. Then try hanging it off of the back of the DAC using the BNC adapter pictured above.
Bottom line: The Pi ain't bad, the uRendu is better and adding the LPS-1 elevates either and both more that the differences between the two.
Seems like it's always the Power Supply that counts the most. Where have we heard that before?
I agree with you Ivan. The more revealing the system, the greater the impact of the power supply. The LPS-1 is damn good for the money.
I am just finishing up my review of the SOtM sMS-200ultra and the sPS-500 power supply.
And yes, you are an audiophile !
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