Lumin D2 or Aurender N100H

Love my Aurender N200. It sounds amazing and the app is very easy to use. One of my requirements was that the component didn't feel like using a computer. The Aurender does a great job of operating like a piece of hifi equipment. Highly recommend Aurender and the N100 is a great place to start. I'd prefer USB to BNC connector. Had a Sonic Frontiers DAC and there were far less cable choices than USB.

Thanks,

aldnorab 

I bought a used N100SC a few years ago and had a ton of issues with it at first, but it has been 100% rock solid and reliable lately.  I'm not sure if it's because of software updates or a new router I had Verizon install, but something clearly changed and I no longer want to throw it in the trash.  I also installed a DH Labs cat 8 cable in place of a junk cable I had lying around which may have had something to do with it.  Maybe it was a combination. 

After hearing complaints on the use of N100, I decided to jump on the higher model N150 and 'almost' won the bid (around 2k).  I have seen the pricedrop but the market supply of used N150 stayed low.  

Go for the Aurender. Some of the reasons why…

Aurender is a streamer only unit that utilizes a fairly large caching area and that helps with getting the signal as clean as possible out to the DAC; it has a USB output which means it will rely mostly on the processing inside the DAC; it has a lot more user friendly UI (Lumin is horrible in this regard)

Lumin D2 is a streamer with built in DAC that is why it only has spdif out. If you only need a streamer then get the N150

"Aurender caches and others buffer."

Now I see that ads, which kinda surprises me why others don't cache with the known advantages over buffering. Not questioning but wondering. Anyway, yea, if that makes significant difference, when the oppertunity arises I will, again, jump on a used N150.