Digital Player Upgrade Options

I own the Bryston BDP-2. Excellent player and streamer! I have connected a 8TB hard drive with all my music on it. Easy to access any song and track. Qoboz sounds great through the BDP-2.
Highly recommended, in my opinion of course.

ozzy

If you already have a DAC that you like, check into the Lumin U1-mini. I upgraded to one from a Node 2i and it was a very nice improvement.

Oz

Thanks , I’ll look into that. I’m still using the original MPAD on iPad to select music files. The parallel program for iPhone stopped working several years ago. 

I used to use a BDP-1 as a Roon endpoint and thought it worked quite well while working around the kludgy and very dated Bryston control program

Used Luxman D05 or D-05u.

Sorry, I was confusing it with the CD player. 

I can upgrade to Bryston's BDP-3 but wanted consider other well regarded Music Servers before doing that.

Actually, the BDP-1 is a digital player, playing music files from external drives but it does not stream. The later models (BDP-2 & 3) do have streaming capability. The Bryston BDA is the DAC and their BCD is a CD transport/player.

Why not just buy a streamer that doesn't have a DAC? Keep the BDP-1 as a transport.

I am most interested in the newer higher resolution streaming options both for casual listening and previewing music I may want to purchase. Right now I use Google Play for that purpose.

I don't know how to describe the aspects of sound reproduction that I value so I will just list some of my system components:
Daedalus Audio Apollo 11 spreakers, Modwright amp and preamp, Lampizator Amber 3 and Acoustic Plan Digimaster DACs, and Bryston BDP-1 digital player.

What features are you looking for, and what aspects of sound reproduction are most important to you?

I have not heard the Bryston units. I have an Auralic Aries G1, and it's really good. It has great reviews. I found the presentation a bit airier (in a good way!) and the soundstage more convincing than the original Aries femto. The difference wasn't huge, but big enough to be an enjoyable improvement.

I also tried a Bricasti M5, whose sound I found indistinguishable from the Aries G1. It's a simple unit, but not very common, and it might be hard to find on the used market.