If you are a ROON user, then the 3 streamers I owned would all work well. They best part is you do not need a superstar music server (also known as a computer).
- Lumin X1, this is a DAC and streamer. Lumin has released the streamer part of the X1 as a new product.
- Sonore OpticalRendu
- PlayBack Designs Stream-IF (fibre optic only works with PBD and Nagra DACs)
These 3 are awesome streamers and the first 2 were used with fibre optic. Using fibre means it does not matter what was before the fibre, such as the music server.
I did not use fibre with the Streamer-IF since I have not purchased a PBD DAC yet. I used SPDIF with the Streamer-IF into a Benchmark DAC3B. Even in that setup the sound was comparable to the other 2. I am thinking there is some fibre inside the box that is hooked up to the SPDIF pathway.