Newbie question about Vault 2i

I am original poster. I want to thank everyone who took the time to educate me on streaming and Bluesound. I knowledge level on streaming was zero when I started to look into Bluesound.
I have a Bluesound Node 2i. I took the advice and decided that my Apple Superdrive was good enough and that I did not need the Vault 2i.
I bought a Buffalo Network drive that was surprisingly very inexpensive. It took awhile for me to figure how how to set it up but once I did it I found it to be a great way to store and stream my CD's. Instead of using Apple Music to do the conversions I now use dbpoweramp which converts to Flac.
I thought the best way to connect Node2i was analog with the provided RCA cables. A few days ago I bought an optical cable so now I am using the DAC from my 1120 Anthem. Sound now is amazing. I stream Tidal and my CD's. Not sure if the Anthem has the ability to process the Tidal MSQ files or not, but they sound great so I'm not sure. My next step is to do a trial of Qobuz and see how it compares to Tidal

Galleybob, Glad to hear your getting good sound. You have to have an MQA enabled device to stream MQA files. IMO some MQA albums do sound fantastic!

I am doing a trial of Qobuz now. Sounds great, sometimes amazing depending on the recording. Will have to do A/B tests with Tidal to determine which streaming service I go with

I decided on Qobuz. The Hi Rez files really do sound amazing