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Price includes PP fees and shipping to US addresses. I am the original owner. These sound as good as the day I received them. Includes original packaging and accessories (see photos). In the interest of full disclosure, I note two small defects: 1. The tip opening of the left IEM is very...

My ZS came with iPower 9V, which I've never used as I ended up with an extra 15v iPower X when I received a replacement iPhono 3 from iFi. I must say that ZS with the iPower X sounds superb, and have never had any issues.

Yes, I'm using the Ares II with the ZS over USB. Roon, Qobuz and flac files. Sounds outstanding, no issues at all.

So far only the one time for my unit.

FYI weird glitch last night. I was listening to something and glanced at the ZS, the LED that shows active streaming was off. Yet I was hearing music. When I tried to power the unit off using a long press on the button, the unit would not turn off. Re-powering by pulling the out the power...

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Thanks, I think it is my dac that is the issue.

I can't remember. Does the ZS hardware prevent using the SPDIF output if USB is also connected? I was going to do some a/b testing for sound quality between USB and SPDIF/COAX. But I was never able to get the coax to work unless I disconnected USB and restarted the ZS.

I've used the ZS as an excuse to try Roon. I've had no dropouts, it has worked perfectly. I switched the ZS to setting 2 for Roon only mode. Everything is on wifi, including the server. Roon also works in my environment where I am always connected to a VPN. Some networked apps don't like that.

I did it this way and no problems at all. It simplifies things not having to start the unit as a hotspot, just for configuration. Once on your network (wired), Just http to the device and you can select the wifi and enter the password. Upgrade for me worked ok. It does take a little time and...

Since my ZS delivery has been delayed by Fedex, again, (POS company), I won't be able to talk about it directly. But a comment or two on this thread. The ZS is essentially a small computer with specialized hardware. The hardware stuff is generally easy to talk about. Like the LEDs don't come...

Aww, I was just going to start ranting about MQA.

I think what Volumio is trying to do is admirable. And it does work well for me, most of the time. But support is iffy, and as I said before it lacks some features that Roon has, music discovery being high on my list. An interesting enhancement/alternative for the Zen Stream would be a native...

Yes, It think it is around $45/yr. One of the reasons I'm going to give Roon a try is that I'm disappointed in some of the Volumio implementation and feature set. Even though Roon is significantly more money ($120/yr).

There are many ways to "skin the cat" in audio streaming. Did I miss something? I don't see a schematic, just a quick start guide.

I'm going to do the Roon trial as soon as the ZS I ordered arrives. I'm interested in the sound quality as delivered by Roon to the ZS, and output to my DAC over usb. Music will be a mix of Qobuz cd and hi-res, and ripped flac CDs. If I like what I hear (and I think I will), I'll buy and put...

I would be surprised if the Zen Stream USB didn't sound much better than stock RPi (3 or 4) using the built-in USB for output. Especially the Pi3 are known for very poor audio quality as a streamer when using internal USB. I'd be interested in an RPi with an S/PDIF HAT, such as an Allo...

No experience with the ifi Stream, but I run Volumio on an RPi and my experience with album art and Volumio was that for many of my CD rips, the album art did not show up right away. If I remember correctly it took a couple of days for everything to populate. Eventually it did, and I have had...

Yeah, should be dependent on file system that was used to format the device. For portability, exFAT is supported by every common operating system including Linux. Max file size is 4GB, max partition size is 8TB.

Volumio has updated native Qobuz support in the last 6 months or so. Works fairly seamlessly without any add-ons. That is what I would like to have.

Don't see any mention of Qobuz integration. Did I miss that?

BTW, this also happens just playing local files of different sample rates. Not only streaming. My S2 is at 2.12.

I don't use TIDAL, but I do stream QOBUZ (no mqa) via Volumio to an RP3+ with an Allo Digi board to my pre-box S2. The connection to the DAC is spdif (coax), so no USB. My issue is similar, but haven't actually killed the S2. When starting a new track with a different sample rate from the...

Brilliant