Best Direction/Product Combo DAC/Streamer

Gustard R26! Great sounding r2r dac with built in streamer. I use the built in streamer by the lan connection, have my Mac book pro connected by usb, have my cd transport connected by coax, and once in a while go to my iphone through Bluetooth. On dac with all the connection option, and best of all it sounds fantastic for $1500 us!

Auralic Altair G1 or G2

HiFi Rose Rs150B for 5k (I own and recommend), I have heard good things about the Ayon streamer ( I own their Kronos tube DAC and love it). I have read that the Meitner MA3 is very good for the 10K range, but I have no personal experience with it. Really it boils down to your price range, whether you want a R2R dac or a Delta Sigma dac and most importantly to me, what you can demo or what has a good return policy in case you don't like it.

I recently purchased a Cocktail x-40, and I love it.  It is a combination component.  It's a NAS/Streamer/cd transport/cd ripper/DAC/fm tuner/Phono recorder.  It can be used as a stand alone preamp as it has digital attenuation built in. The current model is the Cocktail x-50. Here's a link. Cheers

www.cocktailaudio.com/home/sub01.php

+1 on the Auralic Altair. I have the G1 which is a phenomenal one box solution for its price. I haven't heard the G2 yet but I can only imagine it's better.

Bruce