certainly WOULD give it a try but I need WiFi connection and have a perfect 800mb connection. Lumin, aurender, auralic all require direct Ethernet and that would be a pain as I have a 120 yo home with thick brick walls.
Bingo! Now you have a good reason why you cannot do anything else. It sounds to me you are convincing yourself that there is no benefit of using anything more expensive than a Bluesound Node as a streamer. Confirmation bias works both ways. You are not immune.