So this is a Phoenix thread and I’ve never heard a Phoenix. Old songs like Cat Stevens or JJ Cale shine with new structure, detail and beauty and you’ll even better appreciate just how damned good some of these artists really are.
With the Statement its like throwing the window wide open so you can ‘feel’ more and better understand the musician’s message.
The Statement is therefore a joy takes what the SE produces and adds more detail, colour intensity, musicals contours, air, focus, texture, precision, purity, rhythmic interplay and timing, timbral information, super low level detail, top end shimmer and sparkle, musical insight.Ī piece of music you know very well will sound awesome through the SE. To my ears, the SE was in no way lacking and showed no ‘faults’ or ‘anomalies’ whatsoever and I could perfectly happily live with the SEs sound and be utterly delighted. The Statement has 3 USB ports, one optimized for a DAC with a 3ppb clock and dedicated linear power supply rail and 2 others similar to the Zenith’s,įor the record, the Zenith SE offers amazing sound quality that the Statement builds on and extends. Just to mention, I had a Zenith SE in a network powered by Sean Jacobs DC3s throughout, before upgrading to a Statement, so I’m quite familiar with their performance and with getting the best out of the units. I think Innuos makes good products and the zenith/phoenix combo for around $8500 is excellent, but the Aurender was the best i've ever hear, although much more expensive. Aurender doesn't do Roon, but its softare/controller is excellent.īoth products were great. I have a huge vinyl collection and a great turntable set up, and the W20SE rivaled or bettered the turntable sound. Now the Aurender W20SE is i think about $22,500, but using an AES/EBU cable into my dac the W20SE was the best sound i have ever heard. If i were going to buy an Innuos, i would get the Zenith and the Phoenix, not the statement.įor anyone who hasn't yet bought a server/player, after RMAF i was able to borrow a Zenith without the Phoenix and an Aurender W20SE.
#PHOENIX USB PRO V301 PLUS#
As far as usb goes, there was minimal difference between the Zenith plus the Phoenix reclocker when those two were compared to the Statement. Nevertheless, if you own a dac like mine, a light harmonics dual dac, that does not have an ehternet cable input, you are stuck with usb if you have an Innuos. I presume Innuos used the usb because it felt that would best show off its product. I can't speak to using an ethernet cable from an Innuos to a dac, but at RMAF, Innuos was using a usb cable.