AURALiC Aries price reduction

Thank you both for your feedback.  Its good to know that Lightning can handle my library.  Hopefully it wont lose my tags (a lot of time and effort spent).  Wharfy I have what would be considered mid-fi system to most Hi End aficionados, and for me and my financial reality the Aries is about as high as I would go.  For the record my system is made up of the following:

Trenner & Friedl Art speakers
Forte Model 4 Amplifier (upgraded by John Soderberg)
Furutech ADL GT40 Preamp / DAC
Music Hall MMF 5.1 TT
Lenovo T430 / 8 GBs RAM / Windows 10 
Foobar 2000

All items except the Forte Model 4 and T430 purchased used on Audiogon.

Exile_ken, given modest system I believe it will be hard to justify expense for an expensive streamer such as auralic or aurender.
Perhaps simple device as oppo 103 (or better 105), which is streamer/dac/player/preamp will serve you better. Jriver is $50 and will handle absolutely everything you throw into it, and many times more powerful then LightingDS. The only loss being playback without pause and lack of Tidal integration (you can still play Tidal on oppo). 

I think dedicated streamers are an outdated concept that is about to go the way of the Dodo. You are locked into the apps that are available for the various services that you are interested in (as with so-called ’smart’ tv’s). I think they are the audio equivalent of the old dedicated word processors, before the advent of universal PC’s with packages like first Wordstar and then Wordperfect or Word.
In my view one is now better off with something more universal like a Chromecast Audio. No streaming service can afford to ignore its market prominence, and hence there is an app for everything. With Buble UPnP it can access a NAS. Since you can use a big screen tablet as a remote controll, navigating your library should be quite transparent, depending, of course, on your NAS software (about which I know nothing - I only stream from internet).
The inbuilt DAC is pretty decent for secundary systems (up to 24/96), but there is also an optical digital output for more ambitious applications. That digital output is bitperfect, so the final sound quality would depend on the DAC of your choice, from cheap and cheerful all the way up to something like a Benchmark DAC3, or, if you also require a disc player, something like an Oppo 205 with its optical input. The Chromecast also does multiroom.

exile_ken-I think mikhaelkuz makes a really good recommendation above.

However, if you like your system (the Forte is a giant-slayer, imo)  and want to add a streamer and are having a hard time justifying the price of an Aries, the Aries mini with the power pack is a good option. Often pre-owned are available around $500.