I can only comment on the Auralic Aries, which I had in my system for some time.
The sound quality was a big improvement over a Bluesound node which was already good, the software was less reliable though and I found myself having to manually restart songs in Tidal alot, along with other gremlins.
I've since replaced the Aries with a Lumin (with dac), and besides a new jump in sound quality I found the software to be really excellent and reliable.
They make an entry streamer too without a Dac, which should be around the same cost as a Aries.
Hopefully someone can chime in with the Vega, which i've read many good things about but havent had the chance to sample myself.
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