Streamer Recommendations

I love my Aurrender N100 and pair it with a DCS Debussy. 

You might take a look at Magna HiFi's Mano MKIii.5 with it's matching Farad power supply. I have one on order so can't speak to it's performance yet but I have high hopes. The reviewer Hans B likes his and the company offers several optional upgrades and software choices.. Worth a look and in your budget. 

Look at a few reviews of the Cambridge Audio CXN v2 or CXN100 (its successor).  My first streamer was the CXN v2 and it was delightful.  I ran the Streamagic software on iPhone 11.  You could save about 1/2 of your $2K budget!  I only went with Innuos Zen Mk3 for CD ripping, and the Sense software supports desktop MS Windows 10.  The Innuos Zen Mk3 is excellent but may extend a bit beyond your $2K budget.

Eversolo support is non existent.     You are screwed if there is a FW bug.   The fix is reverting to the previous FW and turn off auto updates.   Essentially you are stuck at that FW level if they don't correct it.   Not a good value at $4k.   

I recently purchased a Moon 280 D, the least expensive streamer in the Moon line at $4K. I compared it against my computer running Tidal into a Chord Qutest. I immeditately heard that the Moon was livlier, not nearly as dark as the computer Qutest combo.

I think the Qutest is a great DAC for the money. The dealer talked about the USB interface between the computer and the DAC being an inferior way of connecting a streamer to a DAC. Jitter, etc. Since the Moon ran Tidal or Qubuz on the streamer, the cable interface was not a problem, minimizing jitter.

The dealer then compared the Moon 280 D to a $9K Linn. I could not hear the difference and I have a decent ear. I probably could have heard some differences if I'd had the patience to sit around for a half hour or more listening carefully. It wasn't worth the extra $5K to me. 

I'm very happy with the Moon 280 D. It has an excellent interface called Mind 2 that runs on a phone or iPad. When I type in an artist or composer, a visual list (showing album covers) of all the albums for Mozart (or whomever) is dispalyed. Tap on the album and hit play, and that's about it. 

I don't know how long Moon is going to keep selling this relatively inexpensive streamer, but I highly recommend it.