David Ten, their are only a few reference level streaming devices on the market you will either have a computer/streaming kind of device:
Baestis, Antipodes, Innous, SGM, Aurender, Naim Core
and
the dedicated network streamer without storage:
Lumin, Auralic,
One of the leading questions is do you want to use Roon and or Jriver?
We find that upconversion to higher upsampled PCM or DSD usually sounds way better than 16/44
The Innous new statement is probably the finest digital source currently available the design and feature set of this piece is off the charts:
1: custom motherboard
2: custom usb board
3: custom software
4: femto clocks
5: massive regulated outboard power supply
6: shock mounted drives
7:incomming ethernet noise filter
8: usb isolation
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
