Haven’t tried most of the suggested items but I own an Yggy and used it primarily for the last 2 years with an Aurender N100H, I was satisfied until I tried it with a DCS network bridge with the AES connexion...
I was floored... Never heard the Yggy before... so much so that I decided to buy buy a DCS Bartok and move my Yggy to a secondary system, sold the Aurender and bought a Melco streamer, N1AH2/EX, significant improvement over the Aurender IMO although not as good as the DCS network bridge, but it fits your budget and deserves an audition.
If you don’t have the new USB card from Schitt already go ahead and buy it it is a major improvement over the old one...
I was floored... Never heard the Yggy before... so much so that I decided to buy buy a DCS Bartok and move my Yggy to a secondary system, sold the Aurender and bought a Melco streamer, N1AH2/EX, significant improvement over the Aurender IMO although not as good as the DCS network bridge, but it fits your budget and deserves an audition.
If you don’t have the new USB card from Schitt already go ahead and buy it it is a major improvement over the old one...