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For those that have separate Streamers & DACS

What are some of your favorite streamers/servers strictly from a sound quality perspective?  Please assume a stand-alone DAC.  I've read such a variety of opinions on streamers and was interested in opinions from those that have tried different streamers on with their DACs.  

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I started with a Raspberry Pi, which worked quite well, then "traded up" to an Aurender, which didn't. I dumped that in favor of a Bryston BDP-3 and have been happy ever since.

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Everytime someone mentions Aurender you feel the need to chirp in with your "bad experience".

Not so. What I was really doing here was praising the Raspberry Pi and the Bryston players. I had excellent results using a hat on the Pi to get a digital out and the Bryston is fantastic, so it’s unclear why you’d focus on my mention of Aurender.

Well if you’d bought it via a dealer or responsible seller then you wouldn’t have had the issues you did.

I bought my Aurender brand new from an authorized dealer, the same dealer where I buy my ARC gear. That's also where I bought the Bryston BDP-3.

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Streaming dacs are also good way to go, less complexity,  greater assurance dac/rendering interface optimized ...

I'm not sure how true that is. We'd all be using receivers if we followed that logic.

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