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I owned a Phoenix USB for a little over a year. It was paired with a Pulse. I found the Phoenix helped the sound provided by the Pulse into a multiple DACs. I was under the impression that USB would provide the most, or best, data stream into the DAC. A friend suggested I try a quality AES/EBU...

I am very excited regarding the Stream3. It brings together the SQ of the Pulsar (maybe a bit more) with the Zenith Mk3 flexibility. The pricing seems very good. The hard part for me will be choosing between the Stream3 and the ZEN NG in my system. Will the extra $4750 justify the NG? The...

It looks like both the Zen and Pulse lines are replaced by the Stream line. I found the prices for the stream products listed online for a dealer in Washington with the Stream1 @ $2800 and the Stream3 @ $7250. The optional board prices were not listed. I wonder how the tariffs will impact US...

Thanks Stephen! I missed that when researching. My dealer failed to mention it too when we were discussing options. He suggested the optional user added memory was only available with the 16TB memory option. Either he was confused, or I was. Maybe both. I will go back to him and have another...

I currently have a Pulse (just recently replaced the Phoenix USB with an AES cable which sounds better with my DAC -- Bricasti M1S2). I have been evaluating the Zen NG with AES/EBU (better with my DAC than USB) versus the Aurender N20 (also with AES). The Stream3 lands right in the middle of my...

I reloaded the Sense app twice: once from the Google app store and once from Amazon. In both cases the Pulse could not be found. I reached it through myinnuos.com. The Pulse was there. Switched to the Sense app and it "could not find any Innuos Systems in your network" I tried manually...

This has been going on for a couple of weeks. The Sense app on my Pixel 7 phone, and on my Fire Tablet does not recognize my Pulse in my system. When I enter www.myinnuos.com the Pulse icon pops up and everything works fine. I have tried shutting down and restarting the phone, tablet, the...

@frank7036 Thanks for response: 1) The Bricasti is a full M1S2 with all the current upgrades. I compared it with the Chord Dave (with the M-Scaler), Mola Mola Tambaqui, and Weiss 502. I preferred the Bricasti and only plan to upgrade if Bricasti generates an upgrade. I did consider the Bricasti...

Hello, I currently have an Innuos Pulse with a Phoenix USB feeding into a Bricasti M1S2 DAC. The plan is to upgrade the streaming system in the third quarter of 2025. Would I be better served replacing the Pulse and Phoenix USB with a Zen NG with the Phoenix Lite added or by adding a Phoenix...

@Stephen Healy Do you have information regarding the streaming quality of the Pulse relative to the Zenith MK 3? I would keep the Phoenix USB to work with the Zenith.

I currently have a Pulse with a Phoenix USB and a NAS. The music from my SACD player sounds much better than the same ripped files from the NAS. Would a Zenith MK 3 approach, or meet, the quality from a Marantz 8003 SACD (old)? How would the Zenith compare to the Pulse in regards to streaming...

I did try the DS Mk2, but found the sound to be a bit muddied, particularly after hearing the Chord Dave and the Tambaqui. The two later DACs provided improved instrument separation although the Dave was a bit too clinical for my taste, particularly with the M-Scaler in the mix. I had a chance...

Well, the Bricasti M1S2 arrives soon (Used from TMR). The Bricasti reduces Jitter to 6ppb. Is the Phoenix USB overkill since it addresses the same issue, or are there other gains to be had running it between the Pulse and the M1S2?

Today I was still having problems with my large list. I reloaded the list from Qobuz to Sense and the entire 602+ list transferred over and the shuffle function is working. The shuffle icon from the list page (PLAY \/) is the one that works. The shuffle icon as the bottom of the Now Playing...

I also noticed the shuffle function does not work on my large play list.