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i have been reading the discussions here about the two. May I tell you the pickle I got myself into. I bought a Cambridge Azur 851a and love it. I wanted to stream and use all of my CD’s so I put all of my CD’s onto my computer then an external USB hard drive.
I bought the rather expensive Sony HAP Z1ES based on what they said which is that it streams Spotify. Now I like Quobuz first, Tidal second and Spotify doesn’t even make my list but I thought I could live with it.
The Sony does not use Spotify for any sense and purposes. The most is 325 kb/s even with Spotify Premium.
So, now with a NAS, I have to buy a streamer. I have narrowed it down to a Bluesound, Cambridge DacMagic or Cambridge CXN v2 or V3 for streaming only.
Of note, the Cambridge 851A does not have an internal dac so no digital inputs at all.
I can’t seem to understand the two Cambridge units? If I read the other posts correctly, the CXN does not have a dac inside, has an older chipset and still needs a DAC? What good is it then to justify it as more money than a DacMagic unless only that you can use many DAC’s over time as ? quality gets better in the DAC’s?
Cambridge 851D is a DAC but not a streamer? Expensive.
Cambridge DacMagic 200DM is the same chipset at the Cambridge 851D but half the price of an 851D plus has the Cambridge CXV V2 streamer built in? If the latter two are $2000 to $3000 added together and the DacMagic 200DM is $500 to $900, am I missing something here?
The above is my primary question. A secondary question would be DacMagic 200DM vs Bluesound?
I bought the rather expensive Sony HAP Z1ES based on what they said which is that it streams Spotify. Now I like Quobuz first, Tidal second and Spotify doesn’t even make my list but I thought I could live with it.
The Sony does not use Spotify for any sense and purposes. The most is 325 kb/s even with Spotify Premium.
So, now with a NAS, I have to buy a streamer. I have narrowed it down to a Bluesound, Cambridge DacMagic or Cambridge CXN v2 or V3 for streaming only.
Of note, the Cambridge 851A does not have an internal dac so no digital inputs at all.
I can’t seem to understand the two Cambridge units? If I read the other posts correctly, the CXN does not have a dac inside, has an older chipset and still needs a DAC? What good is it then to justify it as more money than a DacMagic unless only that you can use many DAC’s over time as ? quality gets better in the DAC’s?
Cambridge 851D is a DAC but not a streamer? Expensive.
Cambridge DacMagic 200DM is the same chipset at the Cambridge 851D but half the price of an 851D plus has the Cambridge CXV V2 streamer built in? If the latter two are $2000 to $3000 added together and the DacMagic 200DM is $500 to $900, am I missing something here?
The above is my primary question. A secondary question would be DacMagic 200DM vs Bluesound?