What's a really great Streamer/DAC box for just streaming Tidal?


Exploring digital after a lifetime of vinyl only systems. Have been enjoying tidal through an xDSD and headphones and now I want to step up to something good for my home system, Herron amps and pre and Harbeth 30.1s. Any suggestions? I’d spend up to $1500 used for a single box solution. Needs to be WiFi because I can't hardware ethernet.
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I second the Bluesound Node 2i recommendations and using an external dac.  I have not heard the rest of these mentioned but I can vouch for this product being excellent.  

I actually use the DAC in my Anthem MRX receiver and it's definitely better than the Node's DAC.

I dont think (could be wrong) there's a hill of beans worth of difference in the streaming portions of any of these players. It's all about the DAC and the analogue output stage.

classdstreamer
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10-04-2019 4:15pm
@dtx I would like to push back as to how much streamers matter. Would you be willing to compare your Node against a Chromecast? And would you be willing willing to try to place a reclocker between your streamer and DAC, like the iFi SPDIF reclocker?

Yes I would totally be willing to try all that and see if I can hear a difference.  I have both the Node and Chromecast.  I'll have to play around to get everything just right.  

Also, im not familiar with a reclocker, what it does, why i need it etc.  If you're in the Dallas area, come on by and help me out!