Question What's your next HiFi purchase?

[Jasonovich]

I like gadgets but there's way, way too much stuff going on there for me 😆

Nah............🤣

 

[record_spot]

Received my Primare NP5 today, drum roll, here's my review 😎


The Primare NP5 is really on another league to the WiiM Pro Plus, this is going to be my dirty secret! This tiny box is dynamite. Makes an excellent transport for my Eversolo DAC.
Worth the investment, £260 is absolute second hand bargain.

I thought the WiiM Pro Plus was small, the Np5 is about half the height, length wise it’s about the same as the WiiM. It makes minimalism respectable.

It’s so simple to operate, once it detects a signal it switches itself on, then switches off auto when not in use.

It has Spotify and Qobuz software built into the hardware (not sure about Tidal), once you open your Spotify app on your mobile, it’s there waiting for you, ez-zi pee-zi peeps!

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About 15 - 20 years back there was a firm called Firestone Audio that manufactured some small form gear very much like your BRZHifi box. I used to have their Spitfire Audio DAC that was a brilliantly implemented little thing that could take two or three inputs (from memory) but would work out itself the signal it was being fed (coax, optical and something else I think) and just send that signal to your amp. It was really very smart and ahead of its time, plus it sounded great - I paired it with a Sony Blu-Ray player and it was easily as good as a Marantz KI player I had at the time.

These days? I need to physically switch my Cambridge DAC to the input I want whether that's TV, or streamer. 17 years on...!