Streamers - Auralic, Aurender, Lumin, others...

The Holo Audio Red ($950) is the best sounding streamer you can buy until you get into Lumin U2 territory or any Aurender.

It is pretty much just a box but sounds amazing. 

@gkelly What’s so special about Innuos? It’s not expensive (innuos mini) even new.

EDIT: It doesn't work with Room, damn! 

So we have for now: Innuos, Aurender, Lumin and Sonore.

With Qobuz and Tidal Connect the need for Roon becomes mute. on a sidenote, once you get an InnuOs You will be able to put the Mac 💻 on the shelf, just where it belongs in a Audio setup. Sorry for such a rude comment it just that I thought we had gotten over the guys with a Mac as their music streamer. You’re like the third person today with one of those so once again I apologize for the comments

Aurender Conductor is an excellent user interface. But it isn’t as good as Roon. Not from UI/UX and not from the selection algorithm for auto/radio station playback. Roon is much better. Aurender, as I stated earlier, relies on cache when used natively with Conductor. It’s both its pro and a con at the same time. You eventually end up with a humongous queue and it’s annoying. If you set it to continuous play that queue is going to continue to grow. Overall the Aurender wound quality when used with its conductor app leveraging SSD caching is superior to using it as a roon endpoint. The difference is small but if you have a revealing setup you will hear it. 
 

Lumin native app sucks. I would only use lumin as a Roon endpoint. 

N200 user here.  It's been great.