In my view it looks like streaming may be where digital is heading. Once you get access to all that music for a very reasonable price, at present, I don’t know if it will stay that way, it’s pretty addictive. You can check out albums that you never would have bought and find out that some of them are really good. If not, you’re not stuck with a cd or file that you paid $10 to $25 for. If you like to collect music there are streamers with hard drives for downloads you purchase.
You probably want a streamer with analog and digital outs so that when DAC technology improves enough, and it will, or if you want to use your Ayre’s DAC you can keep the streamer and use the better DAC.
Aurenders seem to be popular streamers with hard drives, I use a Lumin which sounds pretty good but doesn’t have a hard drive. Nad has an M50.2, which is the big brother to the Bluesound products (Bluesound is NAD's budget line). There are many more. I’m sure others will have recommendations.
You want your digital music player to be fully MQA ready, whatever you get. MQA also seems to be where digital is heading. It’s for reducing the file size of high-res files so that they can be streamed and for correcting errors caused by digital recording and your DAC. Some around here are convinced it’s a scam but many pros say it does its job.