Upgrade from Bluesound Node

Amazon music is pretty much only available on Bluesound and PCs.

The bridge has no capability of local file play, your only hope of music when the network goes down. You will be giving up many functions and streaming services. This is not an upgrade in my view.

I ordered my Directstream Sr. specifically without a bridge.

I moved from Bluesound to a Magna Mano Ultra with i2s output and never looked back. Consequently a homemade Raspberry Pi with PiCorePlayer can include services unavailable on Bluesound.

I had Amazon and Qobuz and kept the latter as it sounds better to me.

A miniDSP SHD Studio, a Pro-Ject Stream Box S2 Ultra and an Allo USBridge Sig all play Qobuz with excellent results, AND are upgrades to a Node.

What cables (power and IC's) are you using on the Node?

The Node ups it's game considerably when treated to very good cables

Take a look at Audio Envy or better still, Zavfino - select cables that have OCC copper or silver in their contruction

I have the Node 2 and stopped looking for a better interface once the good cables were installed

Regards - Steve

Both the Bluesound and Denafrips seem way below what your amp and speakers deserve...both are great value products, but your system is way better, especially since you primarily listen to streaming...