Streamers - Cambridge Audio CXN (V2) or Blue Node 2i

As a further note the machine is on order. Music Direct @ $725.  Now on to Power cords and ICs.

You ordered at just the right time! Now that Cambridge announced the CX Series 2 line, I suspect all the current CX stuff will be going on sale, and the CXN was the first of the bunch. Given that the CXN and CXC are apparently only getting a new paint job, you get a great deal.

Apparently a new app is coming with this release as well, so the CXN will get a functional upgrade soon too.

I'm waiting to see how if the CXC goes on sale so I can get a nice transport upgrade while I'm at it. I've seen those make their way into some fairly high end systems.

To clarify, my music preference is classical. I have used 3 free internet built in apps; chromecast, whatever the 851 uses, and bluesound's. They all have plenty of stations or enough, although I think the bluesound has more with better graphics for each station. I used only remotes and their respective unit displays for the other 2.

The 851 does display incoming quality from cdp or USB. It would be nice to see a display that show both incoming quality,  and outgoing quality that is measured( not predicted), if so-called up- sampling is done, which I detected no improvement from by ear. 

Thanks all....   I've got 60 days to decide to keep or return so I've got a couple things coming..  a hospital grade power cord coming and I've got some old interconnects that are not too bad to try with before I decide to blow real money on either..  I'll dump my > 650 CDs that also have files on my PC to an SDXC card and plug that in the USB on the back and see how they sound through the streamer, as well as internet radio.
Ahhh...  new toys.  The last two were an ARC LS 17 SE pre which my old ARC LS2 MKII B blew away and a pair of custom Acoustat 2200's which came in after being dropped off the truck in transport and went back unaccepted after a damage check.

Well....  it's streaming.  Power cord that came in the box and some 25 year old Monster interconnects...  sounds awful good on wifi-radio.  ..  that is stone cold out of the box.