Moving away from computer streaming (MacBook/Audirvana) to a dedicated streamer (Aurender) produced significant improvement in all areas of SQ but most notably, the removal of fatiguing “digital glare”. I recommend you make the move to a server/streamer. Join a streaming service like Qobuz and they will have almost all the albums in your CD collection at your fingertips with SQ better than CD. Burn any album in your collection not on Qobuz and your collection is complete and conveniently available. If you can up your budget to $850-900 you can get a preowned Aurender N100H offering much better SQ than any Bluesound Node/Valt model. If not, IFI has models in your budget liked by the press as an alternative to Bluesound.
Digital Advice
Looking to replace my Denon 2900 which is very old and having more problems.
Option #1DAC and Mac (I already own)
Option #2 Stand-alone Streamer DAC
For digital I play CD’s to the 2900.
Many but not all my CDs have been ripped to the Mac.
Goal is to stream music to HIFI system & play legacy CDs.
I stream Amazon Music HD, on my Mac and mobile devices.
My budget is $600.
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