Ed Selley
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@Ed Selley You reviewed quite a few streamers in the past 6-12 months. Most of them are around £500 ballpark with all of them getting 8/9 out of 10. In fact you gave the Node 2i 'Best in Class' badge. After skimming through all of it is it fair to say that the main thing that sets them apart is in the software/app implementation plus the ongoing support going forward, considering we all use a good DAC?
The Node 2i is a peerless piece of kit- it's still the best thing anywhere near the price and the native Bluesound app is a bit better than the native Limetree app. The Limetree adds DSD decoding and upsampling and it does sound better in both this state and when running native. Whether this is worth another £395 to you is an area of subjectivity, I have to leave to people to decide for themselves.