Seeking Recommendations for a Streamer (No DAC)

If you aren’t too married with name brands, I have a world class suggestion. To use it you will need to use Roon or a similar computer based management software that will do all the heavy computer processing. This streamer will only be used as an endpoint with minimal local CPU processing. If you power it with a great power supply, you will have the most amazing streamer. 

Here is the article that shares more details and it includes a complete list of the article sources. It is the same single-board-computer streamer used in the T+A SDV 3100 HV a $38,000 USD DAC/Streamer. 

The NanoPi Streamer — A $50 Endpoint That Competes with the Best

Thanks @ejh369 You might have missed it on p1 but I abandoned the idea of upgrading the streamer only and bought a Lumin T3X. It arrived this morning and already sounds fantastic. The optical fiber adapters arrive tomorrow.

As an aside, my DAC sold an hour after posting it.

@macg19 I am happy you found something that sounds fantastic. Enjoy! I will also be getting some new gear soon. A new preamp. Really looking forward to it. 

Thanks

@ejh369 thank you! Do you know what you are getting?

Lumin T3X is very impressive looking, I hope you end up loving it. When I upgraded my streamer a while back, it was a close race between Lumin and Innuos, everything else I tried was well behind those two.