I've owned the DirectStream with Bridge II, my understanding (at least according to the manual) is that the Bridge II provides UPnP rendering capabilities but still requires a a separate UPnP server.
I have a Bricasti M1SE with the ethernet module. After the MDx board upgrade, and in my humble opinion, ethernet is superior to USB.
It seems like there are quite a few DACs with built in ethernet these days: Bricasti, Mytek, PS Audio, Lampizator, Lumin, MSB, Simaudio, Naim, Aurender, Auralic, Krell, Ayre, Hagel, Mola Mola, dCS, and the list goes on.
While the PS Audio w/ Bridge and the Innuos can both be streaming end points, the Innuos differs in that it can be a Roon or UPnP Server and it has the ability store music locally on an internal hard drive.
If you don't run Roon or store files locally on a computer/music server, then you might not benefit from an Innuos.
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