We let top wordsmith and Hi-Fi enthusiast David Vivian loose on Lumin’s U2 Mini transport and he discovers a technical tour-de-force that can hold its own with the highest end streamers at many times the price. Awarding an Editors Choice badge in February 25’s Hi Fi Choice, he says “the U2 Mini raises the bar for tonal smoothness and texture, resolution, dynamic reach, soundstage space, image specificity and, ultimately, musical flow and coherence. It’s as if we’ve gone straight from exceptional budget sonics to genuine, top-dollar high end…LUMIN offers an extensive range of streaming solutions, but the U2 Mini represents a particular sweet spot as a compact transport that offers great flexibility and cutting-edge tech that will extract the best from any DAC. It’s a streaming gem, simple as that.”