Refurbished Bluesound Vault 2

The device may operate better on 5gHz due to less traffic; less dropouts, less skips.
Most wireless devices around the home/work are using 2.5gHz. It's connectivity, not audio quality. 

Faster transfer rates helps with issues of skipping/pops, etc.
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Just added my Refurbished Vault II to my system and so far very happy. Not sure what refurbish means but all seems there and the price was great. 

First hooked it up directly using its own DAC using WyWires Silver IC’s to preamp and not bad. I’m sure with a little burn in things will improve.

Moved over to the DAC in my Cambridge 851C using a Nordost Siver Shadow cable and no comparison. As expected the Cambridge DAC is much better and you don’t have to concentrate on it; it’s there.

Not sure I have it up and running all there as I’m not seeing what the Bluesound App does, so at the moment I have to control what I’m doing thru the Spotify App. Will load Tidal next; already had Spotify Premium for the car so started with that. If Tidal is really that much better I’ll be very happy. I ripped a CD and no idea how to access it as the Bluesound App just hangs when I try to add a player. Just got it up and playing so I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

That “hanging “ what are you referring to?

Couldn’t get the Bluesound App to do anything but I figured it out. I was seeing my network but needed to apparently be plugged into my WiFi router which follows after my Cable/Mediacom router. Switched that first thing this morning and as soon as I opened the Bluesound App it asked me to update and now It works and I can see the first CD I ripped. Question I have now is do I still have the leave the App and go to my Spotify App directly to play music there and will Tidal be the same way? If so, is this why I hear people talking about using the Roon App so one can control everything in one spot?

Digging this Vault so far. Pretty sure I’m going to have a lot of fun with this thing. I have a Furutech plug for the player connection so now it’s time to build my own PC. The thought of using the noodle of a PC that came with it is making me ill.