What is your favorite budget streamer?

+++ for Bluesound NODE. It's just been the reliable one amongst my experiments with other streamers. The app is great and well-sorted. The outgoing N130 is being discounted to $349 new. Easy choice. If your DAC does USB Audio, you can output that from the N130 Node as well as coax and optical. 

Node Nano, assuming you do not need to bring the big guns out as per your post, se we are going for convenience, price, and functionality.  Bluesound has the best software in the business, which is why it is so damn popular, you can stream everything to it.  I stream Amazon Music, SiriusXM, and Spotify to mine and a lot of background music from SiriusXM for me.  See link here:  Bluesound music services

The Ifi streamer. I have everything from the Node N100 to an Esoteric NO5, and for the price it’s amazing.

I have a WiiM Pro  - Schiit Bifrost (fully upgraded) - NAD D3020 VII - Tekton Lore for my bedroom set up. The Bifrost was a real upgrade for the system.

The WiiM streamer works flawlessly streaming Tidal through Tidal Connect.

I have 1 Bluesound vault purchased in July, 2018 and 4 Bluesound streamers purchased shortly after, and all have worked flawlessly.