This is the high end model that has an exte

al PSU and cost £4,995, not the budget U1 Mini.

I dont really understand what steamers do since they take a digital signal from the server or Qobuz and send out a digital signal to the DAC. However the difference in sound quality that these top of the range steamers make is astonishing. The Hifi press routinely hypes small incremental improvements but when I switched from the digital output stage of an £18k steamer to the U1 digital suddenly sounded natural and analogue.