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

I used an Aurender N100 for several years.  The "Conductor" is quite a decent UI.  

However it does NOT support my preferred streaming service, Presto.  If ones electric utility is at all unreliable (mine, in very rural VT, is) some Aurenders should be on a UPS, as losing power, while switched on, can "brick" the device.  The N150 has an internal UPS and solves that issue, I do not know about the higher end Aurenders.

I have switched to the new Eversolo T8 which does everything that the Aurender did plus it supports a full set of streaming services.  It has a better clock than the entry level Aurenders and supports up to DSD 512.

The T8 also supports connecting a USB CD drive for playing or ripping CDs - I have ripped CDs and it works OK.  I do not know how it sounds playing CDs as I have the Esoteric K-01XD SE.

Do ensure that whatever you choose has a femtosecond clock, has good buffering, supports the services you want and supports the resolutions that you want over the DAC interface you intend to use.  

Aurender N20 has been great. 

@retiredaudioguy thanks, I'm reading right now about Eversolo T8. It has nice price tag - much better than Aurender / Lumin. Similar to Volumio Rivo+. Are you saying that sound quality is better from Eversolo than from Aurender N100?

if you’re just talking streamer, no dac, and not doing dsp or some other processing, only differences among streamers are explained by noise, or its absence.  Remember, it’s just a transport, like a cd transport, so sole objective is accurate reading of digital stream. that’s why you don need to spend big $ or overthink it.  

Why do you need a streamer since you run roon on a mac? 
if you just need an end point, you don't need a streamer.

Couple of suggestions:

1) keep running roon and buy a great dac that has an ethernet input. Your dac will be a roon endpoint. Did this for years because usb sucks as a dac input.

2) get a dac that uses i2s (which is even better than the network input) and then get a streamer that its job is to convert the network input and exits to i2s for your dac. This is what i do for the last year.

Besides all this, if you are running roon on a mac running osx, switch the operating system on the mac to linux and roon will sound better. If you have a newer M series mac mini, pick up a used 2013-2019 trash can mac pro to run linux and run roon on this. This is exactly what i did a year ago. I still have a m2 mac mini as a server with 10TB of ssd/m.2 nvme storage, i have a permanent link from the trash can linux server to my m2 mac to the storage for all my tbs of ripped music. I have a 128g ssd on the trash can mac for the roon backups. Simple, i backup the roon storage from the m2 backup that runs daily. Everything runs very fast, roon arc runs fine.

The other option is to run qobuz connect which actually sounds better than roon with linux.