No. If I remember right, that post was in response to someone who was wondering if performance would improve if he used a streamer with Tidal Connect or another app, vs going through his Android phone. I answered because I had at one time used both the LG and an iphone > Schiit Bifrost2 > pre/power amps. The phones were connected to the DAC via AQ Carbon USB. My point was that when I bought the ZenStream, the quality of sound improved a lot. Never had a U18, and now I stream via JPlay to the R26 via LAN (fiber converters blabla) and it's the best I've heard to date. I don't know if that's helpful. To the second question, there isn't a Qobuz Connect unfortunately, so you have to use a third party UPnP app, like JPlay or Mconnect (ios), or Bubble UPnP (Android), unless you want to go all the way to ROON, then you're sitting pretty because the ZS is a ROON endpoint.
