Best Streamer for External USB Dac


Long time reader, first time poster here. Looking for a good streamer for my system. My system is a Hegel h160 integrated, Goldenear Triton 1s, and a Denafrips Ares II dac. I love the sound of the DAC and want a streamer that delivers that sound as accurately as I can reasonably get. 

I mostly stream Tidal and Qobuz, through mostly Roon and sometimes Audirvana on my Macbook Pro.

Since I love my dac I'm looking for purely a streamer.

Any recs is appreciated, there is so much info online in this department its a little overwhelming. 

Cheers!
mdchavez07
Budget??

I highly recommend an Aurender N100H.

New about $2500, some great used deals around for much less.


You could get a used Innuos Zenmini Mklll with upgraded power supply (important for best sound) for about $1500 or a used Zen Mklll for about $500 more.  Best of luck. 
I’m a SoTM SMS200 Ultra user and have it with the SMS500 power supply also sold by SoTM. It’s a great sounding network streamer and I believe sells for about $1,200 new. I found a used one with the power supply on A’gon and have been super happy. For me, this one replaced their less expensive SMS200 version (not the "ultra" version) so I was already familiar with the great sound.

Most of the more expensive streamers are no-doubt wonderful but you’re paying for the music player software as part of the purchase price.
With simple network streamers like my SoTM or the equally capable Sonore ultraRendu products don’t provide playing software but both work great out of the box with Roon and or Audirvana and half a dozen other software options.
Do you have many downloads? If so why not get a Nucleus (since your using Roon). Connect your DAC to it and let Roon/Nucleus handle the streaming. I’m very happy with my Nucleus and my MHDT Orchid combo with Roon.