any suggestions on what to replace Bluesound Node 2i with

@cissado and @galleybob one option to explore would be to use Roon and DSP filters with the Lumin T2, as an alternative to Anthem Room Correction.

My understanding of ARC, based on Anthem's online documentation, is that you would be able to replicate the functionality using one or more of Roon's PEQ, Convolution, and Speaker filters. However you would need to perform the measurements and calculate the desired filter parameters yourself using something like Room EQ Wizard and a measurement microphone.

@axeis1 

scaler ---> tt2 is outstanding!  👌👌👌

@jjss49 - looking at your profile, I’m assuming you use the Morpheus for your primary dac. Just curious, is that night and day better than the dac in the hegel h160? Does the h160 have the most recent of hegel’s dac’s, do you know? Thanks. 

Only one choice withinn your budget. The dCS network bridge.

Software clunky compared to Bluesound, but SQ heavenly.  Depth, detail, presence, musicality.   It is currently a legacy product as the manufacturer's stated objective with the NB was to create an upgrade path to current spec for all its other legacy products, which I believe is done now. 

Because legacy, you may be able to source at a discount.

@jjss49 - looking at your profile, I’m assuming you use the Morpheus for your primary dac. Just curious, is that night and day better than the dac in the hegel h160? Does the h160 have the most recent of hegel’s dac’s, do you know?

hegel’s h160 is 1.5, almost 2 generations old now (2015 roll-out)... current h190 improves mostly on the quality of the dac... even then, a top outboard dac in the $1500-2000 range will handily outperform the hegel h190 onboard dac if heard on a good system -- i often recommend the h160 to those looking for truly outstanding amplification at reasonable cost, but also suggest they don’t use the internal dac for serious listening

as for my own use of dacs, yes i use the morpheus more than most others (and the metrum jade before it) - it to me is middle of the road tonally, highly transparent, very pure timbre, suitably full bodied and rich sounding - it also has an excellent integral remote volume control, so i can go direct into power amps when i am carefully evaluating those (seems i do that a lot these days...)

if we treat the morpheus as the baseline, and at the midpoint of tonality (other dacs in this group include the ayre codex, jolida fx tube, auris d1d), from there, i can go to other dacs either for more air/more treble energy/more incisiveness (chord scaler/qutest/tt2, mf trivista, ps audio d-link...) or for more solidity/warmth/fullness of tone (audio mirror, mhdt, ava fet topp... )