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What I’m looking for in a streaming transport

I want to move past my laptop for streaming. These are the things I’m looking for- does such a product exist?

1- One box turnkey product- I’m not building it 
2- Reasonable UI
3- no internal DAC
4- native Tidal & Qobuz
5- linear power supply 
6- USB out; spdif and BNC outs would be nice but not essential 
7- USB input for thumb drive
8- first rate sound
9- $1,500 or so upper end 

so far, I don’t think there is anything on the market that meets all points on my wish list. Closest I see is Innuos Zen Mini Mk 3 with LPS 

if I’m wrong please tell me 
zavato

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213cobra
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Ante up for the Auralic G1 streamer. It includes a 1GB playback cache with reclocking - dejittering, LAN-level-performance WiFi and makes for an outstanding feed to a DAC. It makes every DAC I've tried with it sound better than prior. A bonus is the Lightning DS iOS control software sounds better with it than Roon and provides a clear, direct interface.

Phil
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