I have a DAC (Schitt Bifrost) that I like. If I buy a basic Bluetooth receiver, like the Emotiva BTR-1, with digital output and run it through the DAC, is there any reason to consider an all-in-one streamer, like the Bluesound Node, for example? Do they have benefits over a simple BT receiver and DAC? I mostly listen to Spotify when streaming.

  • TenchiroBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The main benefit for me was to free up my phone for other uses. But with my current setup there is a large amount of convenience as well, I can cast to it natively from multiple devices and voice commands.

    Lossless for me is a must though, I didn’t spend the time I did to build my system to add in a bottleneck in quality via BT.

    A Wiim is basically the same cost as the Emotiva BTR-1, I can’t see why anyone would choose the the Emotiva.

  • alias4007BEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Rather than BT from your device, just use your device as a remote to a streamer with native hi-res audio as offered by Spotify, Tidal.

    If you are ok with lower-res audio, consider your device and BT receiver with BT aptX.

    My DIY streamer is a Raspberry Pi + piCorePlayer + Material browser skin, with RPi USB connection to E30 DAC.

  • timn420BEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I did a comparison between wiim pro and my MacBook out to my modi3+ and the laptop was significantly better sounding on my system compared to wiim. I assume usb output is better then the spdif output from the wiim, I did try rca output on the wiim as well, but same results. I sent the wiim back. Maybe if wiim comes out with a USB outputs it would be better.