Really need help choosing audio streamer !!!


Hi all,

I really need help from the wonderful people on the forum. I have a dilemma choosing Digital transport for my music system which will be in my bed room.

Just to give every one some background, I have an expensive stereo system in my living room (~$20,000 in total) and it sounds great. Now, my wife wants something similar in our master bedroom. I want to come up with some thing that sound great but does not cost a lot of money since I have already invested heavily in the living room’s system.

So, my speaker of choice is the Wharfdale Deton 80th Anniversary
So far, I have chosen a DAC (PS Audio NuWave DSD DAC), and an amp (Yamaha A-S1100)
All of my interconnects are from AudioQuest, and the speaker cable is the Rocket 33

My dilemma is I have a hard time choosing the correct streamer for that set up. My budget is $600 for the streamer, I afraid that I cannot go over that since I just want to build a fun and easy listing system.

The streamers that I found so far is :

1. Allo DigiOne Sig Player + Shanti PSU ($466)
2. Allo USBridge Sig Player + Shanti PSU ($410)
3. Intel NUC (used one) + HDPlex 200Watt PSU ($500)
4. Blue Sound node 2i ($549)

The trick here is to find a streamer that offer the best bang for my buck because I have limited amount of cash to throw around. All of the DIY player will use Volumio player (I don’t like to use Roon and never want to).

So my question is how these streamer compared to the others? Will one player be superior to the other based on specs or personal experience ... ? For example, I know that Shantai PSU and HDPlex is better than SMPS but I have never heard them in real life, so it is hard to tell if the speculation is true (right or wrong ??). Any idea is welcome, and thanks for your support.
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@ djones51, I can build raspberry pi4 with Volumio quite easily. I did that along time ago.

What I like is taking advantage of noise cancellation and jitters isolation technology from Allo. They have some very good Linear PSU for Pi as well as HAT isolation board. At the end of the day the DigioOne and USBridge are just Pi with noise isolation techs. But, I don’t know if they will be better than off-the-shelves solution (Blue Sound and Arcam ...)
I had a Node2i and the weakest part of that is the DAC but you are using a different one. The best thing about the Node2i is it's ease of use and all the streaming places it supports, Tidal, Quboz. Amazon HD, Spotify, dozens of radio stations. For a budget streamer it's actually very good I still kick myself for selling mine. 
Don’t forget to consider the App or control interface especially if you integrate Tidal, Spotify, etc.
BluOS tough to beat and real advantage over most others at ANY price.

Bluesound also has AirPlay and Bluetooth in addition to their own plus Ethernet.
You may not think that it’s important until your internet goes out and you want to listen to music and the BT comes in handy.

your decision isn’t even close IMO.
Now, you guys make it very tough for me to decide ... lol

Blue Sound - greater versatility and support

DigiOne Sig - Better sound with Shanti (according to some people - but I don't have any first hand experience)