High end streamer/server profound choice

Dac remains separate, horrifying to embed a dac inside a network player. 
Problem i have is being jerked around with all the separate pieces, and then replacing and adjusting and in the end never quite achieving your goal and ending up spending more with lots of equipment stting idle in boxes as its not worth it to sell.

so buy a quality reference piece that will achieve an exceptional result and wont look like a hodgepodge of boxes scattered all over.  I think we can combine the various pieces relating to players and servers.  Harder to do with amps, processors, dacs and stereo preamps, which should all be separate.  Integrated only makes sense if u live in manhattan. 

So the brands to choose from are Aurender, Auralic, Lumin, Antipodes, PS audio, Naim, Bryston.  All make pretty boxes. Working with $10k to $15k range to get a player/server, and dont want to burden box with an embedded dac.

am leaning to Antipodes, K50 or K30,  like their hybrid power handling approach,  player flexibilty is nice, separation within box, still trying to better understand clocking and all the connections  offered.