1. Home
  2. digital
  3. 129429-1453

Music Streamer Quality

This may be a dumb question but does the quality of a music streamer ultimately affect the sound? So here's some detail. I currently have a Sonos music streamer fed into a Simaudio Moon 300D dac. In the interest of having higher quality sound I could upgrade the dac or I could buy a dac with streaming capability such as the Simaudio 280D. I'm looking at a R2R ladder dac but would have the same Sonos feeding it. Does that make more sense than something like the Moon device? I appreciate an comments.
falconquest

Showing 3 responses by thyname

thyname's avatar
thyname
257 posts
 
A streamer absolutely makes a difference. No question about it. There are people who would argue a streamer is even more important than the DAC.

You can choose to buy a good streamer, and try for yourself, or listen to the Archimago cult, who think that a Chromecast Audio would do just as good.
thyname's avatar
thyname
257 posts
 
@jmarshak 

You were streaming from Spotify on your tests? If so, I don’t think any of Spotify tiers does red book cd quality 16/44.1 you mentioned. Up to 320 kbps lossy.

Such a waste using such a good DAC with mp3

Try streaming from Tidal or Qobuz


thyname's avatar
thyname
257 posts
 
@jmThey removed my previous reply to you so here we go:

If you are happy with your Sonos Connect and Spotify, all I can say is keep them, and enjoy your music.
More to discover