As ever, a considered, informed, and informative video. You present your videos in a way that your audience (of which I'm a regular) will find so relatable. Thank you! 😁😁😁

Oh! Thanks for including the update from Primare. As the owner of a i15 prisma amp and user of Tidal that's great news!

Thanks for quality presentation and contemporary info.

Fantastic video as usual very informative and lovely tribute to the Queen

This is what I've been looking for. Well done sir.

I recently tried roon , jriver and audirivana. Just for sound quality I found jriver to be superior with upsampling mode.

Another top piece of content! So, Si, I have decided to pull the trigger on an upgrade! Going to partner the 2 Arcam Alpha 10's, and Cambridge CXN V2 with either B&W nautilus 804 or the 804S or, depending how the saving goes the 802. I have figured out (with a bit of help) that the Arcams will power both 804 and 802 to a decent level. They will be my forever speakers (probably) then I can upgrade amps and source as and when, that is all, as you were brother.

Leaving out Sonos again. Yes, their player does not do high res, but their app, in my experience is better. It gives a true unified search across services. Its cataloging and access of NAS stored files is also really easy. I tried bluesound, but the app drove me back to a sonos port, which i feed into an ifi ipure 2 which then feeds an ares 2 dac.

Great video. Most streamers are pretty capable. I’m a BluOS user, but mostly use Tidal Connect. IMO it’s usability’ of the app that’s the tipping point when entering the vendor’s ecosystem. There’s at least three vendors using a version of the Linkplay app. That’s the WiiM people. Years ago, bought the original Audioengine B-Fi streamer. It’s a capable device but crippled by a horrible UI. Brought it out of ‘storage’. Yup the WiiM app will find and control it. Tried it on my buddy’s Songbird…yup works there too.

Fantastic overview, thank you!

thanks for this comparison! I love Bluesound! Cheers

Thank you for this discussion. I think we're at the spot where half-baked software can really crash a product. So, while I use BlueOS, Roon, and KEF, the KEF software is just a horror (LS50 wireless version 1). BlueOS is lovely, and Roon is even better. So, I avoid the KEF apps, and stick with BlueOS and Roon. And thank you for the lovely remembrances of QEII.

Fantastic video! I'm just missing Volumio and a bit more insights on how Qobuz is managed and on how well gapless is implemented

Very well presented.

I wish I didn't have to pay for ROON every month but, it works really well. Really stable, sounds great and interesting you've done this now- weirdly enough there's some marketing coming from Roon that they have something big coming on September 20th. Pretty curious as to what that is... For stability, sound and navigation qualities, Roon is a winner for me.

Thanks

Can anyone confirm if the Primare Prisma app supports folder view when using a local USB thumb drive?

great

There are 2 new streamers: musical fidelity mx stream and ifi neo stream. Hope you could review them

Bluos is the way to go

Is vtuner available on BluOs?, this is the best internet radio platform for non US stations...It didn't used to be, maybe it has changed

Question please: I just purchased the Graham LS 6 speakers and I want to buy a streaming set up. The problem is that I am older and pretty helpless when it comes to technology so in addition to sound quality a very important priority for me is ease and simplicity of use. I will only use it to stream directly from streaming services (no personal files, CDs, phono; currently I use TIDAL, Amazon HD and perhaps Quobuz in the future). It appears that bluOS may be the easiest to use. Do you have a view as to whether the Node, if paired with a sufficiently powerful integrated amplifier, would be sufficient to get enough out of the L6 speakers or is there another device with bluOS - or any other system that’s easy to use - that you might suggest. Thank you.

Just too bad that you missed out on the LUMIN streamers and the LUMIN app. The best, according to me.

I’m still confused about streamers, I stream from an iPod/iPad straight to a pair of wireless kef lsx. Are you saying if I send that signal to a streamer, I will get better sound. Please tell me the answer Simon

What about the Innuos Sense app ?