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I'm after the cheapest way to decode a flac stream with following criteria; - Transport from UPnP (DNLA) NAS using either WiFi or Cat5 networking - Toslink digital out for using existing HiFi DAC. - Low power consuption (eg just few Watts - it's just a decoder anyway). There seems a real lack of Flac players that are cheap and HiFi separates integratable like current-day CD players. All

...ly on the same page here. I'll first try to cover some of my basic ideas in general, then respond to your specific comments inline. For one thing, I have long believed that it is smart to keep analog audio circuits separate from digital circuits. This would seem to point to SPDIF and AES3 as the ideal interconnect, but the unfortunate truth is that those two specific digital audio standards create more problems than they solve. I'll try to explain: Every digital audio playback system combines some sort of storage media with some sort of DAC. Between these basic element...

...either expensive boutique heavy-weights or portable > devices. > There are certain some over-priced boutique devices out there, but > I'd say that much of the price goes into working around the > deficiencies in unidirectional digital audio connections such as > SPDIF and AES3. The real problem is that there is not a better > interconnect for HiFi separates other than FireWire and USB, which > each require a level of complexity in the device which is more > difficult for the average person than pure analog or traditional > digital I/O. > > Howe...