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Can anyone recommend a good streamer/DAC?

I have tried streaming on an Astell& Kern Kann Cube and love it. Now looking for a streamer DAC combo (or  both integrated in one box) to put on the rack with my living room system. I have read good things about the Cambridge Audio 851n and their CXN v2; $1,500 and $1,100, respectively. Also about the Bryston BDA-3.14, at $4,200. I am willing to pay for good quality sound and at the same time I worry that the technology may be moving fast enough that as with computers and HDTVs there will be a much better version available soon for a lot less money. Anybody know if Cambridge Audio or Bryston has anything new in the works for streamer/DACs? All recommendations will be much appreciated.
kevin1956
yyzsantabarbara
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Push your Ethernet and server noise to Fibre Optical cable and lose the noise. Lot more talk about this nowadays. The Lunin X1 is the only DAC that has direct Fibre input on the DAC. I think a lot of networking streaming products become obsolete when this Fibre input becomes mainstream. 

So for today if you do not have a expensive Lumin X1 DAC you can do something almost the same with the following.
https://www.sonore.us/opticalRendu-rr.html   (If only using ROON)

If no ROON, here are the other options from them. 
https://www.sonore.us/index.html

speedbump6
760 posts
 
The Naim series like the nd5xs2 is great at about 3500 ( I own one of these), and the Araulic Vega series, g1 is about 3500 I believe and I Just purchased their g2.1 which runs 6900.00. Both those are very easy to use also, which is important to me. 
tuberist
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Lumin T2
kevin1956 OP
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Many thanks for the insights and helpful suggestions! What a pleasure to get your  thoughtful replies.
parker65310
212 posts
 
I’ve already got the BlueSound Node 2. The 2i fidelity-wise is the same. I’m happy with it, but I’m looking at offloading to a DAC to improve the sound even further. Two that have caught my eye in particular are via the links below. The MyTek fully supports MQA, which is nice since I primarily use Tidal HI-FI. The second, the MHDT Labs Orchid especially caught my eye because it has top notch processing and its tube based for a very affordable price.

https://mytekdigital.com/hifi/products/brooklyn/

https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/mhdtlab/
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