• I have a TV, amp, turntable and speakers. I want to add spotify and tidal to my setup.

    I can buy a streamer (e.g. node 2i) to run spotify and tidal through the amp to speakers. the node 2i can handle tidal's CD quality and MQA streams.

    could I also just connect my TV (which has spotify and tidal) via optical out to a half-decent DAC and get equivalent sound quality? I'm thinking I could maybe save about £350 on the node 2i (£500) by buying a ~£150 DAC. would this work?

  • I find TV output is a bit disappointing compared to my (cheap but good) Allo Vana output - not sure if they do tidal, but I'd look at Allo stuff for cheap but good quality output.

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