Aurender A10 vs Teac NT505 vs Lumin T2

I heard a T2 at a local hifi store and thought it sounded fantastic.  It was in a completely different system from mine, so no way of comparing apples to apples how it compares to my TEAC NT-505.  What I can say is that at less than half the price, the NT-505 sounds fantastic compared to the Bluesound Node 2/Auralic Vega combination that it replaced.  

As far as the app goes, I'm an Android user, and I thought the app sucked.  The TEAC app is basically a re-badged version of the Lumin app.  The Lumin app works with the TEAC also, and that's what I was using.  It would take minutes every time I started the app to "find" the NT-505, which was really frustrating.  I replaced it with BubbleUPnP, which cost $5 for the version with no ads and works wonderfully.

I had them both. All depends on the rest of your setup. What gear are you using?

I’m using the Lumin app without any issues with my Teac NT-505. Works great for streaming Tidal, which is all that I do with it. Fantastic sounding streamer/dac/network player.

benzman, please post your impressions of T2 vs NT-505 if those are the two you were referring to, thanks!

@kren0006 Are you using the Android version or the Apple version of the app?  Could just be some peculiarity of my network, but I experienced the same issues on both my Android phone and tablet.

@big_greg: I am using iOS version of Lumin app, running on iphone.

Never have had any issues with it. In fact, it is more stable than the BlueOS system I run at my office during the day. I never get any dropouts with the Teac NT-505 running Lumin app to stream Tidal, whereas I occasionally do get drops with the BlueOS running on iOS, although to be fair the Ethernet run is longer on that system (25 ft cat 7 Ethernet cable vs the 3 ft cat 7 Ethernet cable I use with the Teac).