S-Man
StrivingON
I think we are in the golden age of hi-fi. You can run vintage kit or modern & easily incorporate a digital front end which allows streaming/hi-res downloads. I've been playing around with an Innuos Zen Mini, it sounds incredibly good, better or equal to any CD player. I still run vinyl which also sounds great. Nothing to moan about.
Are you using the analogue outputs of the Zen (does it have an internal DAC)?
It has a very strange spec:
Analogue Output RCA Analogue up to 24bit/192KHz
https://innuos.com/zen_mini_mk3/
This doesn't make sense. Analogue outputs are normally specified in terms of output voltage, impedance, frequency response and noise.