Streamers and software

@daledeee1, I’m all about the seamless integration of my music into the usability of the software that plays it. Roon undoubtedly has the best streaming software on the market right now IMO. People say it’s too expensive. Okay then let’s do the simple math. Roon costs around $15 a month. So that’s $0.50 a day to listen to whatever I want, in any room in my house or away from it, from a catalogue of literally millions of high-res tracks and hundreds of thousand of albums to choose from, without sorting through my hundreds of records, tapes, and CDs. 
 

I use a Roon Nucleus music server with its own Sbooster power supply. All that the little intel chip inside does is locate tracks and albums on Qobuz that I control from any of my Apple devices. That’s it. Nothing fancy about it. 

+1 on a used Aurender and the Conductor app.  

I use Roon, have a lifetime subscription, and am very happy with it. You can try out for free, and go month to month to give it a good trial. A bit of a learning curve...but that is true of any of the software packages.

I have a Bluesound Node N130 and it was fine.  I upgraded the DAC and streamer.  For a streamer I bought a used Innuos Zen Mk3 with 1TB storage for $1800.  The Sense app it uses is better than the BluOs with Qobuz in my experience.  I have the Holo Audio Cyan 2 DAC which is excellent.  I Didn’t like the operating system using the Holo Red though as a streamer.  I tried and didn’t like Roon although some swear by it.  I like using my iPad to control my music and the Sense app works very well on my iPad.  In my experience the operating system is almost as important as the sound.  Having tried many different streaming apps I’m happy with the Sense and my search is over.  

I have two streamers, a NODE (N130) with LPS, and EverSolo DMP-A8. I subscribe to Qobuz and Roon. For my Roon server, I have their new Nucleus One. Both of my streamers work flawlessly with this setup. The more I use Roon the more I like it.