I think you’re on the right track looking to upgrade your streamer and will very likely close the gap significantly between your streaming and analogue performance. The MU1 would certainly be a big upgrade as would anything from Aurender from the N200 on up. The newer Innuos streamers also look interesting and come with their excellent Sense app, but I’ve not read any reviews of them as of yet. Best of luck.
Next step up on the streaming food chain?
I’ve been enjoying my Auralic Aries G1 for nearly 3 years now. If I wanted to explore a significant step up in my streaming quality, and not a small incremental increase in quality, what devices should be on my short list? Aries G2.2? Grimm MU1? Something else? The G1 is awfully good, however, I still perceive an extra layer of dimensionality and roundness with my analogs set up (see profile for details) that I would love too achieve in the digital realm. Or am I barking up the wrong tree, and should I focus on my DAC, a Bricasti M1, and try as non-oversampling R2R dac? FWIW, I think the Bricasti is excellent- it was the first DAC I ever heard that made me say- "that sounds terrific" instead of saying "that sounds great for digital"