I have had the U-1 mini, D2, A1 and X1 from Lumin all purchased from Dave Lalin aka AudioTroy in New Jersey and I live in Arizona. Lumin is a wonderful DAC / Streamer and the APp is super easy to use. I would highly recommend Lumin and AudioTroy. My advice is that each step I took the sound just got better. Reach as far as you can.
Think ill just go with a lumin
Starting out anew. reading all of the post into the wee evening hours, and getting more and more confused, I think I may just get a Lumin DAC/streamer combo. D2 or T2 i suppose, maybe an S1 if i can find one a little cheaper and I scrimp and save a little more.
My situation is rebuilding from scratch, so waiting for pieces to come together. Going with a Mac MA 352, and a pair of devore o96 speakers. Smallish room, just plan on streaming and putting a turntable onto the system, but nothing else. Figure i will just subscribe to tidal or Qbouz for the convenience, although anything appl conected is a plus. Will have a hard wire connection and decent wifi. I suppose i am most worried about how technology may change, and whether I should go R2R, but that rabbit hole started to make my head hurt.
If anyone has some opinions, either it wont work or seems like a solid approach, views are much appreciated.