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It may seem like these are “my needs” but anything I recommend is primarily focused on market share opportunity for Fosi The streamer market is saturated at all price points WiiM is a tough nut to crack and Fosi can steer around them Bluesound Eversolo Next tiers Where does Fosi fit in the...

Yes and yes and yes Generally known as a USB Bridge and Streamer It is also a DDC generically without the SPDIF out and useless to me but popular I2S outputs You obviously could add whatever connections Fosi wants and it would work perfectly with the Fosi ZD3 DAC Just please make it black...

Yes that is customary in streamers with galvanic isolation and clock(s) And as a bridge, USB out with reclocked lower jitter signal to a DAC

+1 to USB out transport Or a second CD that is not hitting a market flooded with these portable CD players A simple desk-top CD top loader with USB I2S SPDIF out would have much less competition I don’t get where the market share is for yet another cute portable CD player The is significant...

It is more useful to have a RCA preout and a RCA line out As a general matter every subwoofer has a plate amplifier and adjustable sub frequency adjustment and it looks like the rca outs have defeat switches which is great but just making it a line out is most useful with or without the LPF...

+1 to the comments requesting USB A USB bridge for use with a PC is essential for me A number of streamers act as bridges and galvanically isolate the USB in and then reclock the signal and reduce jitter and send it along to a DAC If you do away with an internal DAC you can have a streaming...