best source for Pandora

 Maybe the Audioengine B1 might be a solution.  Priced at $189 with a 3 year warranty and aluminum case to boot.   Uses a AKM4396 dac chip.  Has  RCA outputs to enable hook up to your preamp.  Also a toslink output if you would like to run it into an outboard dac.   Set mine up and paired it and never needed to touch it again   

Raspberry pi running Volumio.

FWIW. Subscribe to Pandora+ for $5/mo. primarily to get “better” sound quality.  
My experience with Win10 PC is that Pandora online resolves music much better than the W10 app, where I believe earlier research indicated that W10 app is def bandwidth restricted.  The PC also resolves better than Pandora app on Xfinity. If I recall, the iPhone/Pad thru the same system resolves the same as W10 online Pandora since now I only use Pandora on iPhone when mobile thru AirPods.   

I would say that some cuts coming thru the PC setup make me look up and take note to the pretty incredible sound quality coming thru a high quality consumer gear setup.  
Bottom line, test out the $5/mo. service being sure that the online app is set up as “best sound available” (or something like that.)

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Similar experience with Pandora.  Using  andriod phone thru a BT device the dac indicated 44.1k.  Using a chromebook the dac indicated 48k.  I have the premium tier and like the options it offers.