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. "

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.

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!

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.

Those of you experiencing hiccups during play with the Node2 and using the WiFi connectivity, I strongly recommend to keep it as far away as you can from your TV or any other device that uses a remote control, preamp, integrated amp, or even your (external) DAC if it has remote control volume adjuster. In my experience, the remote control devices (can) interfere with the WiFi signal going into the Node2. Just as an experiment, point your device remote control to the front of the Node2 and lower/increase the volume and watch the blue light and watch and see if it flickers. For me, its 100% repeatable and every time I lower the volume on my TV the light flickers the signal gets lost. It might depend on the type of remote control you have but its a simple experiment and you can simply rule it out or in. I discovered this by accident and I no longer have the TV on while I play music through the Node2.