Lumin Hifi Rose or Aurender

One thing Inthought of is the Lumin U1, so I presume the U2!is the same, does not have internal WiFi receivers.  You have to hardwire it to you LAN.

The reason, of course, is a wire is (generally) less likely to have issues and, probably more importantly, the receiver:transmission is quite electrically noisy.

you would need a hard wire off your router or some kind of mesh wireless system that will let you run an Ethernet wire to one of the satellites.

several of the others you were looking at were more integrated, for good and bad.

Thanks I plan to hardwire!

I haven't heard the other two so don't know but I have hifi rose 150b and rose 250 and love them both. The rose 250 is half the price and as best I can tell does exactly the same as the 150b only half the size. It has an internal DAC. You can connect to your streaming service easily. What I really love is roseradio which gives you access to streaming channels all over the world and you just pick the genre you want to listen to... free with more channels than you can count. It has an internal storage but better to just put your music on a usb flashdrive and plug it into the usb port. the port is in the back which can get inconvenient so I got an extension from ebay which works fine.  I don't think you would go wrong with one of these.

@efoo I currently have a Lumin U2 mini with an upgraded power supply.  I have had the D2 and P1 as well.  Also have owned  an Aurilac G2 streamer.  If you like the Lumin sonically, really hard to beat.  They are dedicated to building streamers and Streamer / DAC combos and that’s it.  The parent company is in the professional / commercial audio / video space.  Great App which is really important, update and upgrade their software regularly.  My U2 mini is outstanding, I would assume the U2 steps things up further.  They’re all in one solutions like the T3 are really tough to beat as well.  I loved both the D2, step below and P1, step above the T3.  
 

Good Luck, 

Thank you all for the wonderful feedback sounds like there is a lot of great choices!