Recommendations for high quality Streaming Audio:


Greetings everyone; looking for recommendations on how to stream high quality audio, let me explain.

I currently use my Apple 8S phone, with a high quality aux cord, into my preamp. This method has better sound quality than when I use a blue-tooth adapter and stream from my phone, but I enjoy being able to stay seated and having control of what I want to listen to.

Anything out there that gives the user remote control / access to what they want to listen to?

If not, I'll settle fort he next best thing, being plugged into my preamp, and having high quality audio without wireless control

Budget: $1,000 for equipment, $25 per month for streaming service.

I don’t know much about DAC’s , streamers, etc.. or alternative music streaming sites, but I do know that there are better options out there from what I’ve read on these forums.

Thanks in advance for the forthcoming enlightenment.

Rene

barkeyzee1
At the moment I don't have a laptop and I would have to run a network cable 30 feet across the floor to my music room, not good. So I would also like to just plug in my S10 phone into a streamer or DAC to play music. 

I've been looking at the Innuos MK III
it's a music streamer, DAC and also rips CD's to flac and downloads them to its internal 1 TB storage (upgradeable) HD You can connect your phone via USB and use their APP on your phone to control music files. The price is around $1,200
I went one step further in that I wanted a very high quality DAC to feed my Tube amp, so I went with the Exogal Comet plus non digital DAC
I still have the option of using the Innous DAC 
to send files to my 5.1 AV reciever 

"Innuos has created one of the best control apps in the marketplace making the server/streamer very easy to use for iOS, Android, and Windows users. Roon integration gives users access to Tidal, and Qobuz, with additional support for Internet Radio and Spotify Connect."
I am currently experiencing the same issue. I have the Arcam SA20 which has a built in DAC. I stream music through a Logitech bluettoth adapter with my laptop or phone. Its time for an upgrade. I do no not need an external DAC since tbe Arcam has a reference grade DAC that I will use. My budget on the other hand is limited, $500. Ibwas thinking of just using my laptops headphone jack out with a 35mm to rca cable, then connect the rca cable to a rca to coaxial adapter, the the coaxial end to my Arcam. I am still indecisive and dont know what to do. I dont mind using a cable if that means having great sound quality.

Thank you all for the feedback
I have the Bluesound Vault, which is similar to the node.  For best performance, run CAT6 to the Node, but you wouldn’t need to run CAT6 to your laptop.  You control the Node with laptop, phone, or tablet wirelessly.  I’m extremely happy with mine and have used the digital out primarily because I’m running into a processor with a DAC but I have used the analog out and the Bluesound DAC seems great for the money.  Good luck.
Check out the Sony HAP S1.  I own one. It is not a streaming device buy you can download all your music to its 500G hard drive. I love it because it can directly play 24 bit (high resolution) format. About $700 $800. It also includes for free tune in radio and internet radio. Last week I listened (for free) blues fron Greece and jazz from Brazil. No subscriptions required. Cant play it from your phone but you can organize and search by song, artist, genre, album...