What have you purchased recently?

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@dB_Cooper

Do yourself a favor and pick up a bridge or perhaps a streamer of some sort, even a basic Pi with a decent LPS running Volumio using the standard USB out will be a much better source than your iPhone 11 Pro.

@Veritas

A PC or a phone is shitting in the water before you even start. When I finally got a proper streamer, I actually thought I got a brand new DAC.

@Polygonhell

I’m in the treat it like Vinyl camp, buy a $50 Raspberry pi4, install Volumio or Ropieee use the USB directly to the SU-6 and see if you like the difference, possibly buy one of the cheaper Ifi power bricks for it.
If you notice a difference save your pennies and jump in at the deep end.

So I spent a bit more than $50, but at everyone’s behest, I picked up an entry-level bridge/streamer/whatever to see how I like it! This is a refurbished Sonore microRendu along with one of Small Green Computer’s linear power supplies.

If I totally love it, maybe I’ll swing for the whole opticalRendu package, though I’m getting a little ahead of myself considering I haven’t gotten to actually /listen/ to it yet. Also, I’m not currently a Roon subscriber, but I’ll almost certainly give Roon a try as part of the whole streamer thing too.