Vitaly2017
Headphoneus Supremus
Glad you got sorted. For streaming there's nothing better or more advanced than a modern smartphone. A high-end DAP does sound better, even with a dongle, but if you're only using it for streaming, you probably won't notice the difference. Also, you can't EQ Tidal MQA (or any MQA). That's part of the MQA spec, not a limitation of the DAP. As soon as you EQ MQA (if your player allows it) it's no longer MQA.
Dont be so quick on that judgment that you won't notice a difference if you use streaming apps...
You got a very high level entousiast here who listens to spotify and notices every single change in music and it scales enormously with high quality gear!
Hence if it wasn't worth it i would never invest so much time and money into this...!