Tube DAC (Black Ice) Users - What Streamer Are You Using?

I have used both the Bricasti M5 and the iFi Zen Stream with LPS and optical cable with FMC’s on my BIA Glass Dac. The Bricasti is a definite step up but both sound very good.  I ungraded my main system Dac to a Lab12 Reference so my BIA Dac is used on my second system with the iFi zen stream. The main concern/issue is the iFi zen stream’s set up is a pain, glitchy and not intuitive.  Help support is just worthless.  Bricasti M5 is the mirror opposite with no issues. Replacing the Zen is on my future list so I am interested in what becomes of this thread as well.

The M5 does not have it’s own controller app.  I use Roon now with a sonic transporter i5 as my network server to both my streamers instead of my Macbook Pro that I used prior.  When I first bought the M5 I was not interested in Roon as well and contacted Bricasti to see what options I had.  They said Roon, Audirvana and mConnect were the main choices for streaming Tidal/Qobuz.  I tried all three and mConnect was ruled out.  I subscribed to Audirvana for 5-6 months and really liked it but decided to switch to Roon lifetime membership when I added my sonic transporter.  Glad I did it integrates seamlessly  and I like all the interface features and SQ is great.