New DAC or New Streamer or New Streamer/DAC


Curious what people would think is the biggest bang for the buck?

1)  Auralic Aries G1 Streamer with current Pass Labs D1 DAC (Aries would replace current Auralic Aries mini)
2)  Lumin T2
3)  Auralic Aries mini (I have this now) and Denafrips Terminator

All thoughts welcome.  Thanks
acurus

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@acurus 

"Lightning DS app works well, when it works, but constantly crashes and cant find the device"

I just wanted to be sure you are setup correctly. I read that sentence from you and remembered my issue with LDS and having it constantly not find my device.

For a short while, I streamed Tidal through my Aries Mini and constantly had to setup the device.

My error was streaming through the Tidal app which was using Airplay as the path from the iPad.

Even though I used the LDS to connect the Mini, I wasn't browsing through the LDS app. This in turn removes the Mini as the receiver and crashes LDS when streaming Tidal.

Once going through the LDS app and not Tidal, everything worked and naturally the SQ improved also.

You may have it setup correctly, but wanted to throw this out just in case.