Building a DIY Music Server

[DuckToller]

6 hours ago, GUTB said:

What is it??

First of all, Merrry Xmas GUTB, have a safe & sound festive season!
- Did you recently update Win10?
- What about ripping the CD to you audio PC's SSD and test again?
- Did you upgrade the Yggy's USB stage to the latest?
- Check out that the PP USB card (controller?) is not faulty and has the drivers updated.
- Check out if it had been the same mastering? Perhaps you heard a MQA version of the recording?

- OTOH, it is rare that I have read someone reporting TIDAL as sounding better than other sources ...
- Before investing into a new dedicated audio machine you may want to test an RPI4 fed by ethernet as ROON endpoint, its 100$ and many have made good experiences with that solution

- Finally, if Tidal doesn't sound as good as you new China toy, you could reflect on expectation bias ...

I am happy to hear that you have had a proper performance in your system, did you use your new PuRiFi amplifier to get there ?

best, Tom