want to ditch my Brooklyn to streamer..thoughts?

Hi - I wanted to share my brief ownership with the BlueNode 2 as a +1 on mahler123's reliability comment. I wanted to like the unit, and I know some others have had success with it, but mine was an extremely frustrating experience and I ended up returning my unit after a few weeks of use. Nothing more annoying than going to listen to your music and discovering that the BlueNode has lost its NAS library and has to re-index the NAS all over again, hopefully they have corrected that issue by now, my poor experience was 9 months ago (Fall 2017). I posted the following comments at the time to another forum where I had been touting the BlueNode's virtues before getting bogged down with disappointing technical issues!
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"I am still evaluating the BlueNode 2 but it is likely going back to retailer.  One key issue I have is that for a new device, with latest firmware, it still has a couple quirks – one of which is lack of being able to do artist/song radio properly. Also, I find library scrolling to be slow even on the associated desktop app (if it has indexed my library, why does it take seconds for my album art to load for my library and Tidal, when scrolling a list?). And then when I wrote in about the artist radio, the rep told me they can see my unit is in temporary storage mode (?) meaning that if power failure or unplugged then the BlueNode 2 will lose all settings including Tidal log-in and all the library indexing to my NAS. This has happened twice already due to power outages. No DIY solution to put it out of its ‘temporary’ mode, only fix per company is to schedule a shared Teamviewer computer screen-share with support desk and give them remote access to network?!? No thanks, and especially not for a brand new product…back to the store it will go! Unacceptable that this is not something they can address with firmware download. "

I am glad to hear your Vault2 doesn't share the same issues. The Bluesound rep saying they needed to be allowed remote access to my home network to fix that 'temporary storage mode' issue was the final straw for me after the other frustrations. Maybe I had a lemon, or maybe the unit/OS behaves when the music is stored on an integrated drive, like your Vault2, rather than on a separate NAS over a hardwired network? (I have a Synology NAS that stores my music files). Anyhow, I was really keen on the unit as a way to stream Tidal to my system along with the ability to have my own FLAC library all easily accessible in their app. For the latter I ended up using newest JRiver (+app) which serves the same purpose of sending my FLAC to receiver as a DLNA device. As for tidal, they lost my subscription money as I went back to using Spotify for streaming (still hoping they will launch a full high res option, but it sounds ok for now...not quite as robust as my Tidal tracks while I had the Node2 but not bad). 

I have no doubt that someone out there has made the Node2 work for their setup, but definitely I had issues with mine so this is just meant as a PSA that if you get one, be sure to put it through its paces (and make sure it doesn't have issues described in my case) before the return window is up!