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I have a node 2i and yeah it does great, slightly over priced maybe, defo don't pay over £500. Theres a powered version too, it's defo overpriced, at £300 more your better off with a separate amp if similar value. I think they originally intended to be £400 and £600 was their target pricing.
Briefly had my new streamer taking its tv/ps4 sounds from the tv optical out (Samsung and quite old) as ps4 don't have an optical out of thee own and new streamer doesn't have a hdmi in out. Now have a hdmi to optical box. Difference in sound quality wasn't audiophile "mmm i detected that the xxxxxxxx", it was huge. Whatever the TV was doing to that sound stream waw bad.
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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?