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Choosing a network player/streamer

This is my first post on here so please don't be too brutal with me if I commit an Audiogon faux-pas. 
I have a nice little Bryston system that I have assembled over the last couple of years.  It consists of a BP-26 Pre-amp, BDP-3 network player (with BOT-1), BCD-1 cd player,  BDA-3 DAC, 14B-SST amplifier, and Magnepan 3.6r's. 
I recently added a Yamaha np-s303 network player to check out.  It sounds good playing through the Bryston DAC, and its APP (Musicast) is super easy to learn/use. The Bryston interface is problematic and just not intuitive to use.  So now I'm looking for a compelling reason to keep the Bryston BDP-3 instead of selling it in favor of the Yamaha np-s303.  Any constructive comments or opinions are greatly appreciated. 

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tatyana69
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I have 3 systems. The main one has a DCS Vivaldi stack and the other 2 have the Bryston BDP3

I have owned the top of range Melco and the Aurender, and Innuos statement also the tested the Tyko Extreme

The DCS is by far the best .. surprise surprise.

I quite liked the manic moose when it was available but when it was discontinued I have been very frustrated with Safari 

I tried Regalion and also Bubbles somewhere. Yes it is a serious irritation with the BDP and Bryston seem to not care

Roon is sonically inferior when used with the Vivaldi upsampler, and the reasons can be better explained by a techie

Roon takes up more resources than my Nas has, so I had to run it on a linked ssd drive (see.. Roon interferes and does too much with a normal flow)

Also I disliked the Roon interface as I want a simple file structure

The Aurender app is by far the best out there, but does not work with DCS or Bryston

At any level below the DCS - my preference is for the BDP3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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