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

Don’t waste your money, the Eversolo T8 is the one to get. 

Why is it there is always one person who can't "cope" (as per Darko's latest video on audiophile behavior) with other people spending insane money chasing the 1 to 5% improvement.  Hifi as a hobby is still nothing compared to people spending insane money on Rolex watches and beef up their BMW.  Get over it please as it's just annoying.  From my own experience listening to these people are just a waste of my time.  Yes, I tried the Wiim and whatever and in my highly revealing system they are total rubbish.  Luck for Amazon return policy but it's still a waste of my time.  In Hifi, you are still getting what you paid for.  Unfortunately this is still true so please get over it.

I have the Aurender N200 and it’s been solid as a rock and it sounds good too. Their software is easy to use.  The only two things I would like them to change are

1: there’s no I2S output.

2: Amazon Music HD is not a service they support.

All the best.

@eaglekent 

That is an emotional rant, not a logical argument. It lacks analysis, or even a description of your own experience.  But maybe your 9th post will be better….

Last year was in the same position as you are, i narrowed it down to Aurender and HiFI Rose RS130, finding our the Aurender does not support Roon and the fact i personally love the ascetics of having a beautiful display as the RS130 does, i went with the RS130 and have never looked back.  I tried the Aurender as a loaner next to the RS130 and could not tell the difference.  Now my MAC Mini only runs Roon where all the audio and video content lives on my HiFi Rose as a true media content server, and for these reasons, I find the HiFi Rose to be a far superior solution.