Bluesound Node N130 High Resolution Music Streamer (White)

After to much research and debate about what streamer to purchase, I finally bit the bullet and bought the bluesound node!,, and I can say it sounds awesome

I had a much more expensive streamer that was too quirky. This blows it away and sounds amazing. It looks weird, but cool. Didn't think I'd have much use for the buttons but I use them all the time because the radio stations are great and sound phenomenal. I use android and Amazon music HD. The Bluesound has no compatability issues whatsoever and was super easy (and fun) setting up. I've had it for 2 months now and use it every day because it's so easy and convenient. I may not have audiophile ears, but the dac is incredibly good sounding. It does have a few clunky issues to get used to, but for the money it's amazing.Pros: small footprint, excellent sound quality, easy compatibility to all known streaming svcs, great free radio stations from all over the world to explore, Radio Paradise is a great built-in feature no commercials and and let's you skip songs. Sound leveling feature ensures all tracks from your playlist and radio are equal volume. Save innumerable presets and assign your favorite 5 to the buttons.Cons: No power on/off switch, sometimes player can't be found d (have to restart node to connect) Amazon Music app not quite as friendly as the native app. No balanced outputs (RCA only)I use an integrated stereo amp and excellent quality source units - turntable, FM tuner, CD player. This is the cheapest source in my rig, but gets used the most because it's easy, fun, accessible, and sounds great. Really enjoying it. Oh, and their web site has very good support run by Bluesound people so no rude jerkoffs like in public forums. They're always polite and happy to help inexperienced people like me.April 2, 2024: 12 month updt.Still happy with trouble-free usage. bluesound updated the Amazon Music app, works really well. I bought a standalone DAC to improve. It is now slightly more refined, but honestly the built in DAC is really good. The Node is very stable and predictable. I don't see myself having to upgrade anytime soon.Happy listening.

La app es muy lenta en mi Iphone, y la aplicacion en mi laptop no se pudo cargar, estoy esperando si en alguna actualizacion que hagan las cosas mejoran, ahora solo lo utilizo con el airplay.

I have a complicated fairly high end system. For streaming I use a large Synology server and for years have used Sonos as a multi-room solution. It’s great, but the chronic lack of support for hires files means I can’t use it for serious listening. I bought a Cyrus Stream-X some 9 years ago which is probably the worst piece of kit I have ever had the misfortune to own. When it worked it was terrific but the network connection was so unreliable as to be utterly unusable. Cyrus - who I used to respect - were completely unhelpful. They repeatedly blamed my network set up. Over the years my network has been progressively upgraded and is now unifi enterprise grade kit. Still the Stream-X refused to connect reliably on the wired connection. I put a wireless AP right over the HiFi and tried to connect to that. No luck until I unplugged the Ethernet cable (which apparently disables the WiFi) then… it worked! Well for a week it worked, then back to buffering even on lowres files. The Cadence app is rubbish and hasn’t been updated in 4 years.Anyway this week I binned the pile of junk (nearly £2k of sunk cost) and bought this for a fraction of the price. What a difference!Dead easy to set up. Connected first time on WiFi and indexed my huge Synology FLAC music library including album art in less than an hour. Sound quality is great - I’m not using the onboard dac but from the coax out I reckon this sounds as good as the Stream-X on a good day and with none of the pain. It plays 24 bit 192kHz perfectly and the quality difference between these and a CD quality rip is huge. My Sondek is about to get used a lot less!The app is slick and intuitive. As long as this is still working as well in a year I’ll be delighted!

Der Eversolo DMP-6 ist heute bei mir angekommen. Bis dahin nutzte ich einen Bluesound Node N130. Gutes Gerät. Ich hatte bedenken, dass einige Userbeiträge recht haben mit der Aussage, dass der Eversolo zu hell klingt.Aber ich wurde nicht enttäuscht!!!Er übertrifft den Bluesound klanglich deutlich.Satterer Sound , vor allem beim leise hören. Sehr detailliert, ohne zu nerven. Er wird den Bluesound ablösen. Er zaubert zwar keine unendliche breite Bühne, klingt aber sehr fein und satt.Schönen Display. Auch wenn man aus 3 Metern nicht viel erkennen kann. Die VU Meter sind eine schöne Spielerei.Ich nutze ihn ausschließlich zum streamen mit Qobuz. Die hauseigene App klappt super. Im Gegensatz zur Bluesound App sind jetzt meine Künstler in der Favoritenliste nach Alphabet sortiert.Ich nutze auch keinen externen DAC. Er läuft zusammen mit einem Nubert ATM Standbox und einenm Atoll IN 100 Signature an meinen Wharfedale Elysian 2. Top Kombi.Über diverse andere Funktionen des Eversolo kann ich noch nicht viel sagen.Top Kaufempfelung.