Editor at ‘The Ear’ Jason Kennedy has discovered a sublime mix of fidelity, facility and quality from Lumin’s P1 network player, a streamer, a DAC and a pre-amplifier all-in-one. Auditioned in part using the Kii Three BXT active speaker system he says they “made it crystal clear that the Lumin is in a different league to the nearest competitor I could muster, that being the Auralic Aries G1.1. Given that the Lumin is over three times the price this should be expected yet purely as a streamer, using its USB digital output the P1 delivers a considerably more realistic, musical and engaging sound. It sounds less like a digital source thanks to the clarity and fluidity of the music it produces, which made the Lumin/Kii combination particularly exciting. I started to go through as much music as I could, searching out the real gems and revelling in all their intricacies and nuances…The P1 is capable of very high quality results…it appears to have no discernible colourations of its own and delivers extremely high resolution, probably more than most systems will be able to realise. Combine this with its broad feature set and preamplifier capabilities and the Lumin P1 looks like excellent value for money.
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