Music Streamer Quality

I had a Sonos and things didn’t sound quite right, so I tried running Tidal from my iPod through my CD player (it has a USB line in) and that did the trick. Dynamics returned, etc.

I gave the Sonos to a non-audiophile friend.

(note: I did upgrade the power cable for the Sonos to a PS Audio Jewel C7 cable and recall this helping slightly),

Hello I have had excellent  performance with thd Aurender 100H-2T HD 
With class leading super fast 120GIG memory buffer ,linear PS
Custom library interface , Tidal and much more with Gigabyte WiFi 
For under $2300 and built very well 10 lbs ,and numerous awards .
If you want to put Everything on the internal HD it is faster and better 
Upgrade as well as help desk write on same access page very well thought 
Out and customer service is very good, and most of all sounds Excellent 
I did add a Synergistic Black fuse as well as a quality Cardas PC.

I use a Simaudio 300D mk2 with a Wyred4Sound modified Sonos Connect  Sounds great.  The Wyred mod made a big difference. 

Another vote for Bluesound Node 2. If you run that into a Schiit Gungnir multibit dac, you're talking seriously good sound, a highly functional and a really well designed music server for a bit over 2k. If funds allow, I think it's a superlative bargain. Good luck. 

+1 for Auralic Aries mini. It's super flexible and the iPhone Directstream app is quite elegant. Plus, their customer service (if you ever need it) is outstanding.