Innuos Zenith ripper/streamer

[petrik]

I stumbled across this almost by accident:

https://www.audiostream.com/content/inte...-roon-core

Again, a little off topic, but it does indicate an alternative approach to something like the Antipodes or Innuos products.  So not a nice neat one box solution, but it does allow you to use something like the SOtM sMS-200Ultra as a 'network end point', so decent sound quality, hifi kit isolated from the noisy computer kit, and so on.  Although as Petrik correctly points out, you might then start thinking about nice LPSU's for the SonicTransporter and sMS-200, a one box solution become four boxes.  Notwithstanding all this, this is still a reasonably straightforward approach that would offer a good combination of sound quality & functionality for the price.  (and then add a Mutec REF10 and MC3+USB........)

This would be an interesting alternative solution. Let's do some math:
1) sonicTransporter i5 with internal 2Tb SSD: 1455 dollars
2) LPSU for sT: 500 dollars?
3) SOtM sMS-200Ultra: 1400 dollars
4) SOtM sPS-500 with standard copper wire: 500 dollars

Total 3855 dollars which is roughly at the same level with Innuos Zenith MkII. I'm not sure which of these would sound better but at least Innuos looks nicer and would be easier to use (built-in CD-ripping etc).