Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp

Our audio club had a DAC “shoot out”, which included the HiFi Rose streamer.  The winner was the Node2i connected to the Schitt BioFrost 2, the last place finisher was the Rose.  I don’t know the other streamers you have mentioned, but it would be worth your time and money to take advantage of the 15 day trial Schitt offers.

Have you considered moding your Node with a linear power supply? I moded mine with a TeddyPardo LPS and the improvement was huge.  As mentioned in an post above,  software (OS) is extremely important in a streamer; it needs to support the streaming services that you want to use.  I strem Amazon HD and Idagio,  and the BluOS is the only OS that supports both of these services. I'm continuing to use my Node2i,  and have sent my PS Audio Directstream DAC Mk1 to J.K Richards (APS Audio Transformers) for their Signature Plus upgrade. 

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Buy a streamer that offers best possible UI (user interface) app and support. My recommendation would be Innuos or Aurender. And build quality of a streamer is just as important as their proprietary app as this would net in best possible SQ. 

I love my Aurender.   Their support is great and it’s built like a tank.   I have used Innuos several times and I thought it was a nice product.   

I think Bluesound is great, and I think the mistake people make is that lateral move.  Maybe you think the replacement hardware is better but in a lot of cases the UI is bad or even worse support is bad 

That’s why people spending $2k on an Eversolo is nuts to me when you can buy an Innuos or used Aurender for around the same or a little more.   Or less if you got an Innuos Mini      

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