Inexpensive Streamer for Office System

For the price you listed my choice would be the Sonore OpticalRendu v1. I had 3 of these and only 1 left. People are upgrading to the OpticalRendu Deluxe so you will see a few used available on USAM, like mine did last week.

I am not selling my last unit, it is one of the very best streamers around, since it uses fibre. You can integrate fibre into your desktop setup for less than a $100. Send me a DM if you do not know how to get fibre setup.

Try the Bluesound Node Nano and return it if you don’t like it. It’s probably the best bang for your buck for an office setup. It has received some of the best reviews of any streamer under $400.

+1 Wiim Ultra but add a Teddy Pardo external LPS, all in for under $1K. That's all you need.

Check out Bluesound.  I have the N130 and it is an impressive little box that comes with some impressive features for the price.

i am quite familiar with the audio note dacs having had a couple

the 0.1x is an older model, from 2004-5 iirc - i suggest for these older units it is best to not use the antiquated usb input, use a modern streamer with a solid clock circuit instead... so for this application, if sonic purity is a priority, my suggestion is to use an auralic unit (aries, aries mini, aries g1 and so on)... they are relatively inexpensive now as the company is no more, but the lightning ds app is open source and works just fine, the units are built very well, a couple notches above the mass market cheapies... the femto level clocks in these units are superior to those in the cheapies as such as the node, wiim and so on and linear power supplies are already built in or integrated into the setups

just my 2 cents having been around p quortrup’s dacs extensively