Music Streamer Quality

Thanks kendrick,
I get it. It's the old "garbage in, garbage out" concept. Right now I am strongly considering the Holo Audio dac along with an Aurender streamer. Every review I read the the reviewer just raves about the Holo Audio unit. I'm guessing this combination should be pretty decent.

Welcome.  The combination is beyond decent...the Holo dac with Aurender streamer should sound fantastic.  Great choice.  I bought a used the Aurender N100H last year and liked it very much.  The unit is well built, the control application was very slick, and the sound was excellent.  The only reason for selling was I was in the trial mode and didn't want to stop!  You should be very pleased with the combination.  Good luck and enjoy the music.  

I have had the Bluesound Node 2 for a few months now. I agree with the others, I really like it for the sound and flexibility. I can play Spotify, MQA files and even a very large library of digital files I have on hand. This player has a very good DAC, but it can allow for any external DAC or DAC upgrade in the future.

How about Auralic Altair

This is still a timely topic.  Like many, I have (and love) Sonos all over the house but wondering if 'steaming' can be improved for high res systems.  Just feels like my Simaudio 750D DAC deserves better streaming [hardware] input if possible.  For me CD quality 16/44.1 has always been just fine and I can't say I can really hear benefits of higher res than that.  So putting the DAC aside, who makes a better 'Steamer' for simple 16/44.1 resolution then Sonos? and what actually makes this competitor Streamer better?