Bit of advice required folks.
I'm in the process of ripping my cd's to an external hard drive. When completed I feel I may benefit from a better music transport than my old Dell Inspiron 15 laptop!....true? If yes, could you kind techie's supply me with a few suggestions.

Realistically I won't be using any services such as tidal any time soon & I don't have any high Res files as yet. It would mainly be used for the rips, so it seems a lot of the streamers out there have facilities that I'm not gonna use. Mind you, it wouldn't be a bad thing to be 'my-future' proofed, but not a priority.

I currently use a Xiang sheng dac but would consider a streamer with built in Dac.
I'll set a budget at around £500 (2nd hand) but this is not set in stone as if the right kit comes along...etc. In addition, if the unit has a dac I could sell mine.

Fire Away!