True Blue:tim20:True Blue:
Six days in and things are starting to stablise.
Not quite worked out as I hoped. The plan was to sell my Saturn and just go streaming through Nas - > Sonos as well as vinyl playback.
Plan failed
I have not stopped listening to my Saturn through the Rega DAC, the sound is open, detailed, the proverbial "viel" being well and truely lifted. The sound is tight and the depth (staging wise) is phenominal. The DAC has just taken on the strengths of the Saturn and improved everything
Sonos sounds damn good as well, but only listened very occasionally.
I am waiting for my delivery of a Naim nait5i and rega dac, ordered two weeks ago, and I am planing on using a sonos or similar as my source, feeding flacs or wav files, my questions is, how much difference in sould and what differences are there between using a sonos or your saturn? As i like you, wanted to go completely over to Sonos, but not sure now.
At the moment though i would only be using a Denon micro hifi as a transport through optical . so maybe the sonos would better that anyway. ??
Help, lol
tim
Difficult to tell at the moment, dont get me wrong SONOS fed from my NAS and Apple Lossless sounds amazing, just not quite as good as the Saturn transport.
Not really a fair test neither, without wanting to get into the "there's no difference in digital cables or methods arguement", I am using a Chord Signature Coaxial between CDP and DAC, and using a Chord Optichord between SONOS and DAC.
I guess I will be happy with the Sonos, I haven't bought one yet, i have the NAS drive ready, Kef Q5se speakers, and like i said the Nait5i , Rega Dac on its way, but i think the Denon as a transport will be really rubbish at the side of an apollo or Saturn?
Speakers will be the next upgrade i think, only brought them 2 months ago to please the wife as she didnt want standmounters any more, since then the upgrade bug set in and the denon df101 is going.
Cheers