Streamer recommendation


Hi all. 
 

Looking for a streamer recommendation. I love my primary system. Have an Aurender W20 with their additional master clock feeding into my D’Agostino Momentum HD and M400 amps to drive my Wilson Benesch Resolutions with REL 32’s. Have that for my primary space. 
 

Had a great opportunity to build a secondary system in a huge room that is our living room, family room, and kitchen for listening while entertaining or even just casually during the day. I have a pair of Focal Diablo Utopias (and a B&w DB1-D for a sub) fed by a Gryphon Diablo with their integrated DAC. Also using the theater pass through to run a 7.1 home theater using a Marantz Cinema 30. I have very limited space to keep the wife happy. It’s an open room so do t want a bunch of stuff cluttering her area. 


The Gryphon is tucked away in a AV console with the center channel and the Marantz and Ethernet switch are in a pantry closet.  Would like to have a decent streamer. Love the aurender conductor app. Would like some build in storage space to keep the music files built in. Would a Bluesound Vault be enough?  Should I just bite the bullet and get another aurender like an N200?  Or are there some more reasonably sized ones you like?

Your input is greatly appreciated!

wjcasey3rd

I concur with Mazian.

Very happy with my Antipodes K21, which replaced a Project Stream Box S2 Ultra.

Melco Server and CD transport are awesome.  I have two of them, one being the solid state drive version.  The performance to price ratio is exceptional.

I have a similar situation. $8K PSAudio streamer/ DAC in

listening room. A Marantz cinema 40 in my family room with

a BlueSound Node X steamer DAC. It works perfect for the environment 

it is in. I would not consider lighting $8K on fire in  a room 

No one cares about the sound quality.

What's wrong with using the Marantz built in? I know it can do Tidal cast. My HT system is a Marantz, Tidal works well on it, sounds good, like seeing album art and info on the TV screen. It is nice to stream multi channel audio on it. It still doesn't sound as good as my 2ch.

The streamer/DAC in the Marantz is not very good. Even my audio challenged wife uses the Node X over the Heos system in the Marantz.