With Spotify Connect and Tidal Connect you can stream directly from the Spotify and Tidal smartphone. Or hopefully Tidal fires George Constanza and makes it’s high res tier $9.99!ĭifficult to believe how the Zen Stream is able to deliver this level of performance for $399. The player supports DLNA streaming and is NAA compatible. Have until April for my Qoboz yearly to run out, hopefully they will create a proper Quboz Connect instead of the currenlty stupid MConnect. You can listen to music from virtually any streaming service with the Zen Streams built in support for all types of app, such as Spotify Connect and Tidal. It will allow me to bring Roon back in the fold, especially for streaming services. That said, so far the Zen Stream is very impressive. Both sound good, but the direct SACD playback is a notch or two above on the SACD 30n. The SACD playback on the Marantz is better than the Zen Stream playing DSD via Roon (w/ and w/out HQP) over USB. Tidal Connect works great on the ZS directly. use iFi app to do the configuration, especially to check your physical connection of ZS update to the most recent firmware reboot and see how it goes rudymyers (rudy myers) December 17, 2021, 7:11am 1093 well thanks, it worked. Wish Quboz had an equivalent to Tidal Connect so I could use Quboz sans Roon for when I don’t feel like dealing with the Mac Mini. Quboz also sounds great via Roon on the ZS. Which is great news for me as previously the Marantz trounced my mR. This comes out extremely close, both sound great. Tidal via Roon (with and without HQP) vs Tidal Connect on the Marantz. Here is the Ghent Cable, ask for him to add JSSG. If my ZS romance continues, one day I’ll get the iFi Elite. And this very inexpensive power supply arrangement - if you can handle ordering two products direct from China - works well. iFi told me to set the Gophert to 15V and 3.0A. I used the Gophert to experiment with the ZS. He enthusiastically states that the $54 Gophert switching power supply is 85% as good as the Uptone Ultracap 1.2 ($700?) which he also owns several.Ī ways back I bought the Gophert along with the appropriate DC cable from Ghent (another $30?). Has done countless experiments on audio gear, including tricking out the power at his home to the nth degree. He’s a power supply enthusiast who has entered the esoteric when it comes to power for his rig. There is/ was a guy from Holland on Audiophile Style (aka Computer Audiophile) name “Cornan”. My ZS shipped with the junky wall wart instead of the iPower. The Marantz coax doesn’t seem to handle DSD, thus had to use USB for that. Have the ZS connected to the Marantz SACD 30n via coax and USB. Over the past hour, everything has been stable. Roon and the ZS are both hard wired ethernet directly off the same switch. You can stream directly from apps like Spotify or Deezer, or use service-specific modes (like the one for streaming Tidal Masters)- whatever your streaming. I have the Zen Stream installed in my system and have tried a number of different avenues for playback. I restarted the Zen Stream and the update was a matter of 20 seconds. Anywho, to answer my own question, yes, the update should be fast. Zen Stream is a highly flexible Wi-Fi audio transport that supports both Tidal and Spotify Connect out of the box.
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