Lumin or Aurender

Aurender bested lumin on every level during the last 2 years. 
 

I went through the same process a couple of time.  In the end, determined I needed a dedicated music server, streamer and DAC.  Decided to get a DAC / Streamer combo to cut down on cables and avoid the USB questions.  I run ROON and source music from Qobuz and my personal online music library.  Pretty much committed to streaming.  A bit over your budget (maybe not preowned) but I ended up with:

Bacasti M3 w/ network card - looked at Lumin but decided to stay local.

Small Green Computer - sonicTransporter i5 w/ 4TB SSD

Overall I'm really happy and back to listening and discovering music instead of chasing equipment. 

I’d love to hear opinions on where we stand now on these models, Lunin T2, T3, X1 and others like Bricasti M3, etc.

How do they rank versus what has come out since this discussion was active a few years ago.