I looked at ways to integrate Tidal/Roon into my system for some time after also looking at the Node 2 and others I ended up buying one of these Ausus VivoPC VM42 (or one of the many versions they have) multiple USB ports an Optical out to go to your DAC (or the USB for that mater if you need DSD) I find its great as a stand alone music server I can plug my external hard drives or NAS into I can stream from WIFI or a wired connection. I added a wireless keyboard/ track pad combo to act like a remote ( the pc's come with wired keyboard and mouse) and pluged it via the HDMI out to my TV (could use a really small monitor as well). all said it gives me the flexibility of a PC but since I'm using it as a dedicated streamer and NAS it sounds really good and is dead quiet. all told less the $500 Canadian.
How good is Blue Sound Node 2 in WiFi vs Ethernet connection vs external CD player?
I'm considering purchasing the Node 2 in order to use Tidal in my external DAC that is much better than the internal DAC. My objective is to have access to CD quality via Tidal in my external DAC. However, my question is if I do not use a Ethernet connect but just use WiFi for streaming tidal, will the quality still be as good as my external DAC playing the actual CD's?