Well...I am taking the plunge into digital..

Yes... Christos Anesti! For those celebrating American Easter...

I  very much appreciate the feedback comments from those who have boldly gone before me... 

I get fantastic sound through my streamer using a wifi extender plugged in next to my streamer. My streamer was not much harder than setting up a preamp… but it is a really good streamer. So it excels at isolation, not passing on noise… making up for any network deficiencies… etc. get a really good streamer and it takes care of the hassles. 

glad you are getting good sound, but wifi is pretty limited - it may not support the highest rates (upsampling, etc.) and will certainly demand bigger buffers (more delay and some associated issues). If you can hard wire via ethernet.  Wifi is also very noisy (radiation, impact on ground plane noise).  A streamer cannot improve sound, but in the chain from source to DAC, there are plenty of places to create trouble - compression, ground noise, drops, etc.

My wifi connected streamer sounds as good as my high end analog rig.

Using wired is my preferred method, though I can understand the need to use WiFi.

If you do go wireless, try to use the 5ghz band instead  of the 2.5. It has a shorter range, but has much fewer signals running on it.

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