Thinking of taking the plunge.

Streaming AmazonHD and Roon from iPhone and iPad to Airplay. My WiFi is on Windows computers with Eero Mesh Wifi. Easy to add Airplay to the wifi network. Mini plug to RCA can send analog signal to your preamp; a $7 adapter allows Toslink cable from Airplay for digital signalaling.  I used an Airplay Gen1 1274 adapter. $20 used on eBay. Got started streaming for less than $30.

I have  BlueSound Node 2i.  I wonder if anyone has done a blind test to see if you can hear a difference in comparing a more expensive streamer?  If so, I wonder what you would hear that would motivate you to spend more?  So far, I don't see the value in spending more money.  Also, I would be curious about how many have given up MQA by using digital cable to connect to their amplifier.  How many use Tidal?  How many can hear the difference when playing MQA?  The salesman from The Cable Company suggested giving up MQA and use the better DAC inside my ARCAM.  By doing so, do you give up a significant amount of detail by playing music at a lower resolution.

+1 on the bluOS. 

For AmazonHD There's the Echo Link.  

https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Link-Stream-stereo-system/dp/B0798DVZCY

Or one of the small I5 fanless PC with Windows.  Windows OS has the RemotePC app built in so you can control it from your laptop, Tablet or phone.  I liked it better than the Link because I can also run Foobar to play stored music.

For non AmazonHD users the RaspberryPI and Volumio is a great option.

I'm mostly into vinyl, but I have a Bluesound Node 2i that I find to be quite good.  I use it mostly for background, but also to check out new and new to me music.  I haven't had the urge to go with a separate dac yet, and I dealer I trust very much, when asked, advised me that it was pretty much unnecessary to go with a separate dac.  When listening to it in his demo room, he simply said "Why, do you hear anything you don't like about it?" and pointed to the node.