Sn2 with NAC N 172xs

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You’ve basically got options, all in one streamer/DACs, or a network audio transport and separate DAC. Pros and cons of each, and lots of price points. At the risk of looking silly linking my own thread, I tried to summarise the more popular options up to second hand NDX2 money here:

"I cannot afford a NDX2, so now what?"

There have been lots of threads recently about streaming solutions at the “less than NDX2” price point. That’s definitely the market I’m in, and have had many many dark thoughts about solutions that cost less than a NDX2 I shall list my dark thoughts in ascending price order! ND5 XS good integrated streamer, old streaming platform, would likely lend itself to external DAC assistance, 800-1000 GBP second hand depending on service history. PSU upgradeable. Requires software on something else to…