Newbie question about Vault 2i

Thanks, that was a great explanation. I will be buying Vault 2. Thanks again

I was all set for Vault 2 but after considering all the money I will be spending on Home Theater I think I will just spend $500 on Node 2i. My reasoning is that I can live with the conversions of my CD's to AIFF that I have done. Unless I am missing something I don't see why I need HD of Vault as I won't be purchasing music. I think for streaming Qobuz, the Node2i will be fine. I may be wrong on this. I know Tim said I have to store music somewhere but my nephew who uses Tidal said streaming is not a problem and he does not store the music on HD. As far as my converted Aiff files they are now in my iTunes folder. Wouldn't the Node 2i be able to access this.
I don't have any plan as of now of adding Roon. Thanks

Thanks that sounds right

I bought the Node 2i and set have it hooked to my receiver via analog. I am listening to Tidal MQA files. I have also set up a Network HD for my AIFF files which I converted with my Apple Superdrive. The files sound pretty good for sure but I think Tidal MQA is better. Would the Vault 2i do a better job in converting my CD's and would my CD files sound more like Tidal MQA. Thanks

@2psyop you understood my question. Thanks for the response. After comparing my CD conversions to Tidal, I realized that I have been wasting my time. Tidal MQA files sound better so I am going to stop converting my CD’s. My brother was going to give me his collection but I don’t see the point now. Thanks

I am original poster. I want to thank everyone who took the time to educate me on streaming and Bluesound. I knowledge level on streaming was zero when I started to look into Bluesound.
I have a Bluesound Node 2i. I took the advice and decided that my Apple Superdrive was good enough and that I did not need the Vault 2i.
I bought a Buffalo Network drive that was surprisingly very inexpensive. It took awhile for me to figure how how to set it up but once I did it I found it to be a great way to store and stream my CD's. Instead of using Apple Music to do the conversions I now use dbpoweramp which converts to Flac.
I thought the best way to connect Node2i was analog with the provided RCA cables. A few days ago I bought an optical cable so now I am using the DAC from my 1120 Anthem. Sound now is amazing. I stream Tidal and my CD's. Not sure if the Anthem has the ability to process the Tidal MSQ files or not, but they sound great so I'm not sure. My next step is to do a trial of Qobuz and see how it compares to Tidal

I am doing a trial of Qobuz now. Sounds great, sometimes amazing depending on the recording. Will have to do A/B tests with Tidal to determine which streaming service I go with

I decided on Qobuz. The Hi Rez files really do sound amazing