Gus141 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Another great review Chris! Thanks for bringing reading enjoyment again. You and your collection of reviewers with their quality prose is why I read AS (still liked the CA name better though) every day. I have had a Node 2i for over a year. I thought I would “upgrade” it with a Lumin U1 Mini. As much as I love the U1 Mini, I can’t part with the Node 2i. So I keep them both, side by side, and enjoy those streaming services on the Node 2i that the Lumin app doesn’t support (yes, I’m one of those Radio Paradise aficionados you mentioned). The BluOS apps are good but I like other controller software better. As an audiophile-marketed brand, I wish they would display the bit depth and sample rate of the songs being streamed, not just some dumbed-down icons of “CD”, “HR” or the stylized squiggly “M” for you know what. In their app, I wished they had album art for each song in the Play Queue like the Lumin app. Aside from those minor pet peeves, the sound quality out of the Node 2i coax into my external DAC is as good as the Lumin U1 Mini USB in blind test (I can’t test AES/EBU with my DAC, but that may be better). So, well-done Bluesound! The value for the money in their products is without compare, and with the recent Sonos announcements, I hope they thrive. The Computer Audiophile 1 Link to comment
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