Streamer suggestions with both wireless and wired connections

buy best of class then Streamer ~= DAC ~= Preamp ~= amp. Over time for me again and again my end system after an upgrade ends there.

Greatly appreciated @ghdprentice, I expected DAC ~= Preamp, but didn't expect Streamer to be equal.

Didn't mean to sidetrack the OP, hopefully we get more details, I'm interested in following along

I owned the Node and the Vault and thought that they both sounded better wired.  I had used computers for streaming prior to that and thought that the Bluesound sounded roughly equivalent, but I enjoyed having the computer out of the system and Bluesound made Internet Radio so much easier.

  Better streamers are out there and I don’t think $5K is required.  My Cambridge Audio CXN 60 sounds better than Bluesound at roughly twice the Node price.

  I would definitely go wired.  For a few hundred dollars you should be able to hire an IT installer for 1-2 hours to wire your dwelling.  Once done you should never need to repeat.  Think of it as part of the cost of the streamer.  You could try this with the Node first

Thanks all for your input. I think I need more of that.

@carlsbad2 , did you mean 92% instead of 2? Just an elementary calculus. I I compared of course CD reproduction with streaming with Tidal. I hear a bit cleaner and  little bit of more space on CD,  but I would not call the differences crucial. Given that the difference between wired and wireless connections cannot be more than that, 2 % seem too exaggerated. 

As to my main system, I have Thiel CS6 speakers, and interchange different amplifiers, a few class d, and a SET tube amplifier. CDs are reproduced by Jays  Audio transport and a t&a DAC. I suggest both give high quality CD reproduction. Despite this, the differences between wireless streaming with the  Node 2i and CDs are non-critical.  So my logic just says that there cannot be a big difference between different streamers. Besides, it may depend on the type of a streamer, if you have one with a buffer then the information is first loaded in the buffer and then is reproduced from the buffer, as if you were reading from a hard drive. So whether you are streaming wireless or with a cable, roughly, the outcome should be similar, with a little more delay with wireless connection. @troidelover1499 , your arguments sound logical and reasonable.

@ghdprentice , does Aurender produce wireless streamers, how you came to a 22k streamer, would not you get a better overall result to invest part of this to upgrade the rest of your components? (There is a boom on Aurender streamers on this site, to me, it  looks more like an intentional advertisement than statement of objective reality.)