What is your favorite budget streamer?


Looking for a bedroom streamer. I have a DAC and headphone amp and don't need to connect speakers or even need a DAC. Your ideas for a budget streamer at $350 or less? Experience is welcome here.

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MNX10, it does it all and it's simple, has good software, supports all the streaming services nativity. When I was looking to add a budget streamer to my vintage system, this one ticked all the boxes for me. 

My only issue is, got the silver one, like 6 months after they came out in black. 

@deep_333 , re: streamers Asynchronous output. Very interesting as I just picked up an Ayre QB9TWENTY.  I'm absolutely loving it, just using with a laptop so far. Very special dac! I've wondered as I explore streamer options to pair how important it be that the streamer outputs in an Asynchronous path?? Sounds like it's vital. Is wimm one of the only ones?  I would certainly upgrade to Lumin or Auralic's new S1 but didn't want to immediately disregard the ultra... The feature set looks fantastic for the price.  And what about the new mac mini m4 optimized as streamer?
Appreciate any thoughts from you and the group, as you're the only one who has mentioned this "not so insignificant point"
 

@tenpop  If a dac is taking an asynhronous input (USB) from a streamer's output, it does not rely on a clocking device inside the streamer. With other inputs, you have unnecessarily turned a streamer from just a rendering device into something else and created problems. 

You could empty your wallet, 20k, 30k on a streamer just to fix a problem that never had to be created (in the first place),. 

@audioman58 

Innuos  mini pulse streamer , with LPS power supply option 

up to 2-3T SS drive internally and very good app.

And you’re getting these where for $350 or less?