Where do you go after a BlueSound Node 2i?

Find an external dac to use it with for the Sonic upgrade or merely just  change that you are looking for. 

@feldmen4
It amazes me how people start a thread and then buy an item before they have received all the feedback from the community and then complain about the audience not following the thread closely enough...

And, I've seen no rules indicating responses belong to the original poster with a time limit or pre-conditions. Thankfully, it's an open forum where threads can continue for years beyond. Others will camp on later and continue to benefit from from feedback and experiences well beyond the original post and first few pages of replies.  

This does seem to be an open forum on streamers and operating systems.  I would like to know if anyone likes or dislikes the Play-FI operating system? 

If you add an external DAC to the Node 2i, you will not be able to listen to MQA.  I purchased an external DAC with my Node 2i and preferred the Node 2i played by itself.  Bass was better with just the Node 2i and I thought the imaging was also better.

If you add an external DAC to the Node 2i, you will not be able to listen to MQA. I purchased an external DAC with my Node 2i and preferred the Node 2i played by itself. Bass was better with just the Node 2i and I thought the imaging was also better.

Not true on more than one level. For starters, there are certainly DACs that do all the MQA unfolding. I guess you aren't aware of that little fact.

Secondly, a good DAC will sound better regardless. My modified MHDT Pagoda, which does NOT support MQA, sounded better playing back MQA files than the Node doing the complete unfold. The DAC you purchased was not up to the task to best the cheap DAC in the node.

The Node is good, but it is no giant killer. The DAC is only average or slightly above.

Oz