Not that his digital was better than analog. Not that there wasn’t a difference between digital and analog. The sentiment I recall to describe the listening impressions one might hear with a good server such as the SGM (from Mike L) was it was that it was now less critical whether he was listening to a digital or analog source as the SGM elevated his digital playback to an enjoyment level that made him simply care less. The first comment that comes to mind is that it has increased my enjoyment of listening to digital immensely. All told, the Zenith Mk3 hit a sweet spot of price and performance that made it pretty easy to pull the trigger. As much as I love Audirvana, I have anticipated using Roon for quite some time. Perhaps best of all, the Zenith Mk3 was Roon ready. There were also some bonus features that were trickled-down from the highly rated Innuous Statement such as the use of Mundorf caps. These were mainly 1) a low noise, regulated linear power supply 2) a 1TB SSD drive so music isn’t be played from a spinning dive and 3) direct LAN connection to the ethernet for streaming as opposed to going with wireless. I therefore bought a new Innuous Zenith Mk3 as it had the main ingredients I was hoping for to improve upon the performance I was getting from the MacBook set-up. I had no great desire to opt for SOA here with its accompanying expense since it seems that nothing is going to change as fast as servers and streaming in the next coming years. This combo has served me well for a few years but I knew the time would come to update the Tidal/NAS side of things. On the digital side, I play a fair amount of silver discs with the Meitner TX2/DA2 combo but also access a good deal of hi-res material on my NAS server and play some Tidal as well using MacBook Pro/Audirvana /DA2 via a Stealth Select-T USB cable.

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