Sonos

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I realise there are better options from the Aeries Mini upwards, but assuming the limitation to cd lossless as maximum transmission what is the best connection from sonos to Expert? There is no USB out so I assume Ethernet won't work as an endpoint and it will have to be a short optical cable? Obviously I want to ensure I am using the Expert DaC. 

 I have some sonos speakers in other rooms so to make it as family friendly as possible it probably makes sense to keep all streaming through the sonos environment. It an easy way to have Tidl, Quboz a well as Apple Music.

A couple of years ago I've organised a shootout on a Dutch Forum with my Devialet between the Sonos Connect and various modifications of the Connect (Magna Ultimo mod from NL and the mod from Dr. Gert Volker from Germany). Our conclusion was that the Magna Ultimo mod sounded best. 

We also concluded that the coax s/pdif sounded slighly better then the toslink connection. Also on the unmodified Connect.

Modifying the Connect really takes the Connect to a much higher level was the most important conclusion. It's worth every penny.

The link to the Dutch Forum and the shootout: http://www.htforum.nl/yabbse/index.php?t...msg2450837

The link to Magna Hifi: http://www.magnahifi.com/index.php/websh...gory/sonos

The Magna hifi option is not very cheap compared to the original price of the Sonos connect. For this you also have a bluesound for example, how does the Magna compares to that?