want to ditch my Brooklyn to streamer..thoughts?

Real shame you have had so many Bluesound issues, that would put me off very likely as well.
Keeping my fingers crossed for mine.

One aspect might be worth looking into is hooking up the node or node2 via hard line not wifi.
Bluesound did not even give the vault2 a wifi option.
Just a thought......

You could be right that the internal storage the vault2 has is the main difference and could definitely be the key.
Very good point I believe,be nice if any other Vault2 owners could chime in.

All I can say on the Node2 issues you and Mahler have experienced is either a very unfortunate coincidence of faulty units or the Node2 has faults that the Vault2 does not.

I have owned the Vault2 for 18 months and not once experienced similar issues as you describe and both it and the Bluos app have undergone numerous updates along the way.

Very unfortunate for the pair of you.

Please point me to ANY comment made that states vinyl is BETTER?

Saying vinyl is on a different level has NOTHING to do with saying it is better, same or worse, just that it is DIFFERENT.

As I have stated in MANY threads you cannot compare vinyl to CD to streaming and really should not even begin to try to.

I know what genre I like to listen to.
Deezer has an,option called Flow that plays music based on your saved fave artists, albums, songs etc. Much like a Pandora station does but at 16/44 .
When I can’t be bothered to choose I just hit the Flow button and if it plays something I do not like just hit next.

Of course the whole vinyl process is on a different level.

Some would call streaming like the Flow channel,hirez elevator music...lol

@kalali.
if you see same option in bluos app on node2 then it should work. As I said I was not 100% sure if node2 had same capability, obviously it does.
Always up for learning!

You need the Vault 2 to stream MQA through without full unfolding to a further MQA capable device, you have an option then in the Bluos APP to select whether you are using an external MQA decoder or not.
I do not believe this exists in the Node2.

I have owned a Bluesound vault2 for 18 months and use it mainly for streaming tidal and deezer now.
Imho its weakest point is its DAC.
I get much improved sq using its spdif out to the DAC in my Lyngdorf than from its rca outs to the Lyngdorf. This was also the case on two previous integrated amps, both Hegel.

I cannot see the DAC in the node being any better than the vault, more like exactly the same I would say.

Do not ditch the Brooklyn yet, at least not for a node2!