BEST MUSIC STREAMER UNDER 5K? BEST MUSIC STEAMER OVER 5K?

Over 5K The Grimm MU1 (needs a Separate DAC) or the Grimm MU2. I have ’em.  Sadly prices have soared (50%) along with every thing else. If you can demo the MU2 please do.

Upper Aurender’s are all that.

Pink Faun! 

Under 5K New/Used Lumin  T3

Innuos Zan MK3

HiFiRose RS1150B

Under 1.5K PecanPi+ Streamer by Orchard Audio

@gestalt Hi there daddy oh. Nice to see you poking in here!

Right now this https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3546292 is currently on the Poncho Sanchez track. So yah turned up as I type this. Subs! Dawg love ’em.

Has anybody tried Roon Bridge on Diretta? It's rather good.

@dwette no problem. I’m happy with what I have as well. I wanted a particular sound. I wanted 0 degrading of sound quality when using an interface.  This one works for me.  Never using roon or j river.  No problem. I have my dac and matching streamer. Digital is solved. 

@phusis j river was a little buggy back in the day when I tried I never went back.  Audirvāna actually worked with us in getting this sound quality.  The offered free trial periods for our users. 

@calvinj 

no problem. I’m happy with what I have as well.

Cool. I think we're in the same place. I'm really quite pleased with my new DAC. It's such an improvement over what I had before.

In the end I'm still a total vinyl junkie, and my digital just doesn't stand up to it for me in terms of music enjoyment and user experience. :)