Looking for Endpoint help - streamer without a DAC

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

@Stanton_Bailey

I would like to find a system where I could play music from at least 3 sources but with “nicer” streamers than what I have.

Whatever you do, don’t visit the “Benefit of ‘High End’ Streamers” thread!

Benefit of "High End" Streamers?

At the risk of being properly “flamed”, I have a serious question. What are the benefits (real or perceived) of an expensive “high end” streamer over say, a RPi? Before anyone jumps on me, a little context: I pulled a 1 kHz square wave tone up to audibility from my speakers out of a -120 dBFS test track created in REW and played back via Roon on a Benchmark Media DAC/preamp/bridged mono poweramp combo streamed from a PoE+ powered RPi4B running RoPieee. A below the threshold of audibility tone…

Could you say a bit more about what you want to replace? Are you going to keep the Sonos? If so, don’t you need a Sonos-compatible streamer and use the Sonos protocol to talk to it? Or, if the Vault2i sounds good, are you thinking of using a Node2i to talk to the Sonos gear?

What do you particularly mean by “nicer”?

Oh, and which three sources?