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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 
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Pro-Ject Stream Box S2 Ultra. 2 USB ins with more juice to run drives than BluNode. Everything but LPS. John Westlake designed it to not need one. I got a Teddy Pardo PSU for mine before I read this. No noticeable improvment.
I dropped <$1K on it, all in. Including an Atlas Element USB cable  .
2 pages of the included manual, up and running Qobuz and SSDs. 
It sounds as good as my Allo/Shanti, which requires some work, but has been reviewed better than Lumin.
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