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Recommendations for high quality Streaming Audio:

Greetings everyone; looking for recommendations on how to stream high quality audio, let me explain.

I currently use my Apple 8S phone, with a high quality aux cord, into my preamp. This method has better sound quality than when I use a blue-tooth adapter and stream from my phone, but I enjoy being able to stay seated and having control of what I want to listen to.

Anything out there that gives the user remote control / access to what they want to listen to?

If not, I'll settle fort he next best thing, being plugged into my preamp, and having high quality audio without wireless control

Budget: $1,000 for equipment, $25 per month for streaming service.

I don’t know much about DAC’s , streamers, etc.. or alternative music streaming sites, but I do know that there are better options out there from what I’ve read on these forums.

Thanks in advance for the forthcoming enlightenment.

Rene

barkeyzee1
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I have a serious question on this topic: Does your internet provider matter, as far a the quality of sound. I am not claiming it does not exist, but I am skeptical, because I have never heard streamed music sound as good as a good CD on my system, or significantly better than my KT-917 or B&K TS 108 tuners.   

CD vs streaming is somewhat of it's own hotly debated topic. Several people have compared streamers vs transports into the same DACs. I think it's something that's best to try and decide for yourself. But your ISP *shouldn't* matter as long as you are getting appropriate bandwidth. 
cutthroat
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Get a Allo Digione Player .... $175 will sound as good, if not better than the 'high priced spread'... Get the Acrylic Case... Many software options for Free. Your choice of DAC.... Been running them for years.

https://www.allo.com/sparky/digione-player.html
stirlitz
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After trying so many different configurations I came to conclusion that Bluesound Node 2i with external DAC is the best option. I have to say that Cambridge Audio CXN V2 internal DAC was amazing, but their software was just so bare bones I gave up with cloud streaming  and just use it with local network storage device (NAS).
I am using Audiocontrol Maestro M9 Pre and Onkyo Pre, as my external DACs (2 systems) and for cloud streaming I am using Amazon HD and Idagio (service tailored for classical music)
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loramoser
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Yamaha has an R-N303BL Stereo Receiver for $250.00. Has several built-in apps for Pandora, Spotify, etc. Please note, this is stereo only, no sub-woofer out so if you want a sub you will need one meant to be used with a stereo system.
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