Help With Streamer - Aurender, Auralic, HIFI Rose, Eversolo A10, etc.

Boltapuresource,

I’m 70and I went through what you are. I started with the Eversolo A6 that had just come out. Rave reviews everywhere. Like you I did not want to stream, just digitize  my cd collection to have it all at my fingertips. I wanted my music to sound just as good as using my Mac air as a transport. The Eversolo was easy to use and you could do all your editing right on the machine. However the Eversolo imparted its house sound on my music and I did not like it. Tried the master edition to the A8. Same thing and none sounded as good as my mac air. In frustration I moved up to the Hifi Rose 130. Beautiful machine and I wanted to love it. Not only was the software a pain to use it still did not leave my music alone. Thank goodness it was hot at the time and sold it in a day. After much research i stumbled across Aurender. Specifically the N200. Finally a unit that played my music right. Software was easy  to use and understand. I Used it for a while then the up ites hit. In comes the Aurender N20. Endgame streamer for me. 
 

Having said all that, I believe the bluenote model with the cd player model is a good choice for not much bucks. I’ve heard it at a dealer and I was impressed. 

Here’s an Innuos Zen at a very good price.  You can rip all your CDs right into it, and their Sense app gets the highest marks for being user friendly to the point that some have even dropped Roon — high praise.  They also have excellent customer support if you have any questions/issues, which is important.  Best of luck. 

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisbcfc8-innuos-zen-mk3-mkiii-music-server-streamer-cd-ripper-2tb-music-servers-docks

@dwest1023 

Thank you for the details on the Eversolo, especially the app software on the HiFi Rose machines.  I was considering one those, but I do not want glitchy difficult to use software.

I don’t think any of the Bluenote models have a screen and I’d really like to have a screen to display album art, etc.  

Thanks again

@soix 

Thanks for the heads up on the Innuous.  I will check this out.

Thank you, Sir!

I will give a +2 for Innuos. 

I first owned the Bluesound, then Aurender, but settled on Innuos.

I liked the Aurender, but it was limited in streaming choices (which has changed since my usage). I liked the sound quality, a definite improvement over Bluesound.

I ended up with Innuos because it works with Roon and the sound quality is much better than the Bluesound.

I will say that Bluesound offers a wide array of streaming services to choose from,  but in doing so, they seem to have compromised sound quality.

B