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HQPlayer is a different architecture but much cheaper than a MScaler. If I were to change anything now in this setup it would be to go to a more powerful specialist server from either Antipodes, Audiostore or SonicOrbiter (i9) - these can run roon DSP, extended multirooms and HQPlayer - the Innuos architecture is a compromise between server and endpoint - and very good it is with Zen/Zenith as long as the demands on the server are limited. I have heard similar from an owner of a Zenith (multiple internal power feeds) who uses an Audiophilleo USB/SPDIF. Īlso the ZenMini is ‘better’ running streaming services from Qobuz and FLAC radio streams than it is with it’s own local disk storage (possibly due to it’s common power supply arrangements internally).
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(The Allo, running MoOde, was very good with UpNP, a bit less with Squeezelite, and worse with roonready - and I use roon all day in multiroom, so it is important to me). This setup is genuinely sounding very good with all three protocols I use. I have already posted on another thread that I just changed the bridge from an AlloDigiOne Signature to a SonoreOptical Rendu (carrying over the same LPSU), and the ZenMiniIII has the Innuos LPSU and grounding via Entreq - so it’s capabilities are maxed out. This is the setup I now have but with a bridge ‘between’ the ZenMiniIII running as a server and the TT2.