Innuos Zenith ripper/streamer

[midi]

It’s not about price. If you break it down to the basics Innuos isn’t doing anything special. They’ve selected a motherboard, RAM, CPU combination they found sounded well which they powered using a custom designed LPSU. Much they’re doing they’ve learned from the DIY community.

How’s Innuos doing things different compared to the DIY community now having NUC’s running Audiolinux in RAM powered by the best LPSU one can get/afford? Some are still using specialist USB and/or ethernet devices like audiophile switches or the TXUSBultra to clean the USB, others are not. I believe Innuos is going to release similar devices.

I have never listened to an Innuos device but do know that at least two guys have sold their SE’s and are now using the AL/NUC setup.

Of course a company like Innuos has more time and resources to compare different configurations than any single DIY’er but on the other hand they have to build a turn-key solution perhaps making SQ compromises in favour of that. And then there’s the advantage of numbers in a DIY community.

One final remark, Pink Faun has also switched to Audiolinux for their 2.16 flagship music server.

I have never read a negative review about the Innuos, in the most cases the Innuos is the reference device for the reviewers. What´s about the two guys, who have sold their SE´s and bought AL NUCs - are they happy, are they sure that their AL NUC´s have a better SQ ?