Digital to Digital ‘transports’ ?

[Purité Audio]

Hi-Fi News reviews the latest expensive £4300 digital to digital ‘transport’ ( no inboard dac)

HiFi Rose RS130 Music Library/Streamer Lab Report

Lab Report Joining Aurender's W20SE [HFN Mar '23], Grimm Audio's MU1 [HFN Dec '20], the Innuos Statement [HFN Jan '20], Auralic Sirius G2.1 [HFN Oct '22] and Antipodes Oladra [HFN Aug '23], the HiFi Rose RS130 is firmly in the upper echelon of music storage/streaming devices. There is great...

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I just don’t understand why anyone would buy one I tried the Grimm MU1 version here, how on earth could it possibly make any difference let alone improvement with any half competently designed ac.
Paul Miller states that the only ‘improvement ‘ is with the very cheapest and poorest dongle dac, £4k to improve a dongle dac!
The subjective section of the review jeez how many more years do we have to put up with this rubbish?
Angry of Tonbridge Wells.

 

[Killingbeans]

Paul Miller states that the only ‘improvement ‘ is with the very cheapest and poorest dongle dac, £4k to improve a dongle dac!

Yeah, there's tons and tons of products on the market that are designed to supposedly make well performing gear perform even better.

In reality they function more like this:

 

[KSTR]

I just don’t understand why anyone would buy one

It's a streamer and data format converter and manipulator:
"There is great flexibility in its digital input/output (bridge) functions while user-manipulation of the streams includes DSD-to-LPCM conversion, digital volume and the option of either native, albeit reclocked, or asynchronous/synchronous resampling."

 

[Purité Audio]

Well that’s ok then!
Keith

 

[MKR]

Hi-Fi News reviews the latest expensive £4300 digital to digital ‘transport’ ( no inboard dac)

HiFi Rose RS130 Music Library/Streamer Lab Report

Lab Report Joining Aurender's W20SE [HFN Mar '23], Grimm Audio's MU1 [HFN Dec '20], the Innuos Statement [HFN Jan '20], Auralic Sirius G2.1 [HFN Oct '22] and Antipodes Oladra [HFN Aug '23], the HiFi Rose RS130 is firmly in the upper echelon of music storage/streaming devices. There is great...

www.hifinews.com

I just don’t understand why anyone would buy one I tried the Grimm MU1 version here, how on earth could it possibly make any difference let alone improvement with any half competently designed ac.
Paul Miller states that the only ‘improvement ‘ is with the very cheapest and poorest dongle dac, £4k to improve a dongle dac!
The subjective section of the review jeez how many more years do we have to put up with this rubbish?
Angry of Tonbridge Wells.

Ah c’mon Keith, don’t ya know? It’s all about the noise and jitter

But that display sure is purty … maybe we can convince WiiM to throw one of those on the Ultra

 

[TurtlePaul]

I am convinced that part of the target market is people buying $50k+ speakers who abhor that anything costing less than a grand could be in their audio system.