This is what gets me on the separate streamer thing. Is it really better or just different, or even different at all?
If you can’t really tell then why bother having a separate streamer? I have the vivaldi upsampler and other streamers like the one in my melco n1zs mk2, plus in the wiim ultra, and other’s. I very much doubt the streamer in the vivaldi has been done poorly, you would hope that a £25/£35 grand streamer might bring you something more, but does it really?
As in the listening I have done with dCS, with them using the vivaldi, rossini and the varese, all streaming I haven’t found any lacking. Plus a recent demo with the new antipodes oladra into the vivaldi didn’t for see do much at all over the upsampler, certainly not worth a few grand let alone the huge asking price it has.
So is it really just adding for the sake of it or what? I don’t know