Suggestions for a top flight streamer/Dac around the $2000 mark?

+1 @big_greg   Thanks for the additional clarification! 

I appreciate it when people make posts about their actual experiences, not conjecture, and try to limit my posts to my personal experience and stay away from conjecture.

Agree entirely as anybody can read reviews and then near enough copy and paste here their opinions.
Which is why I nearly always ask for contributions from members actual experience with equipment.

I am more than able to Google manufacturer reviews as well as the next person but Agon member reviews are usually a little more reliable as we have paid our hard earned money to get to where we are now.

Now that is not meant as disparaging to professional reviews at all but I hope you get my point.

Yep, for sure. Since this is a $2k-ish thread (see title), can say that I currently own and regularly use 4 such products across different installations (Teac, marantz, Integra, Bluesound) and from my posts here you know my overwhelming favorite based on actual ownership and heavy use. 

Brooklyn Bridge+. DAC with streaming.  Adding an SBoster external power supply is a meaningful upgrade 

I did pick up an older Ayre QB9 DAC for peanuts as I was pretty happy with the Ayre DAC quality in my old EX8 and Ayre right now are offering an update to this to Twenty status which basically means the only old parts surviving are the outer casework!

After reading on other threads of Aurender outstanding customer service and support that has pushed the N100H way up my list of viable streamer contenders.
It is USB only and the QB9 is USB only so maybe a very good match.