What shall I do after my horrible experience with Volumio and Musical Fidelity MX-Stream?

[Beauty-and-the-bit]

UPDATE: I’ve now bought a Volumio Rivo instead of the Musical Fidelity MX-Stream.

I worried that compatibility issues with my SSD or with my DAC might play a role in the MX-Stream not working, so I’ve taken them out of my chain. They’ve never even been connected to it. Instead, I play from an SD Card through the AES/EBU output of the Volumio Rivo. Nothing else is connected.

This unit also doesn’t work. I’ve asked for help with it here

Volumio Rivo first impressions

Hi everyone, I’ve just bought the Volumio Rivo. The Rivo can see all my own files that I’ve transferred to a SanDisk 1TB SD Card and inserted into the Rivo, but it can’t play them. I get the error message:" Failed to decode [file name]. Failed to open [file name]. Transport endpoint is not connected." My Rivo is playing through its AES/EBU output directly to my Genelec monitors. No DAC involved, and no external storage. I have named the SD Card “issd” I don’t yet have Ethernet close to my s…

Just to resume:

1. I bought a Volumio OEM streamer (Musical Fidelity MX-Stream). It doesn’t work.

2. My dealer spends days trying to get it to work. He can’t, either.

3. My dealer orders a new MX-Stream. I never see this unit; my dealer tries to make it work in his shop before handing it to me. But he can’t. It’s also defective.

4. I return the MX-Stream and buy a Volumio Rivo from another dealer. I try to use it in an entirely different setup. This unit is also massively defective.

Volumio and Volumio OEM is BY FAR the most frustrating encounter I’ve had in my decades as an audiophile.

I don’t get why so many people here adore Volumio. Are you the kind of people who love spending all weekends during the year trying to make DIY speakers work? Do you find units that work boring? WHAT IS THIS?