Recommended streamers/servers?

Watching this thread with great interest. I like @larry5729 have done away with the external DAC (Mytek Liberty) and am just usning the DAC inside the Node 2. Puts out great bass and I find that the digital "glare" is reduced. 

Now I'm considering the purchase of a Lumin T2 but am havig a hard time wrapping my head around the $4500 price tag.

I'm very pleased with my Mano Ultra mkII (built by Magna Hifi in The Netherlands).  It connects to my Denafrips Pontus II DAC via I2S.  Still burning in but a giant improvement over my laptop.  Not insanely expensive either.

Thank you all for your recommendations.

This will come down to Innuos and Auralic at that price point... always does.  I went Innuos and am very happy.  Easy solution, built like a truck, fantastic software, sounds fantastic and does not glitch. 

For your budget, I would get the auralic altair g2.1.

I am considering it myself.