A PURE BLUESOUND DIGITAL STREAMING TRANSPORT

About a year or two ago someone posted this and the answer at the time from Bluesound was the Nano. The problem is going to a higher end DAC than Bluesound's target market. This could also be a product for the NAD division. The current leader would be an ICON, with its accompanying interface, format decoder, and memory buffer, that skips the D/A entirely and has an AES/EBU & SPDIF output to go to a dedicated external DAC.

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in late 2024 it seems like there was a trend starting up, more and more budget to mid-priced brands like fiio, keces, smsl, volumio started to offer purely digital streamers (often called a streaming transport), and I think its also time for bluesound to deliver such a product.

the main advantages of a pure streaming transport is that gives you the option to use your preferred dac and thanks to its more "simplified nature" in comparison to a streamer with analog outs, there could be a sharp jump in digital processing quality and connection options.

for example:
instead of a D/A circuit, thanks to the lowered costs the digital section can be upgraded instead with better clocks, isolation and processors, and since we now don't need the rca output, a AES/EBU and I2S output could be mounted which gives added connectivity. 

such a product could and would target a broad range of people, from budget to high end consumers who already have their desired or preferred dac and do not want to skimp on the source's quality.