Auralic or arender?


Hi pc audio folks. I am looking to retire my old Lynx card output from a pc. Px keeps dying. It is clunky to interface with etc etc. I am looking at a couple of potential paths (neither of which I have local access to).
i will be feeding a 1st gen Berkeley dac so I have been focusing on players with aes/ebu  output.
the cost effective choose seems to be the auralic aeries. I could have my tidal and get my collection via nas or wifi. But is the sq any good? Once upon a time I used sonos and it was convenient but didn't sound that good imo.
the other choice is the aurender n10 which seems cool but is 8k.
i guess what I am asking is, is this one of those situations where you get what you pay for?
thx!
jimmy3993

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