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...Regarding Toslink, my understanding (albeit limited) is that if an > external DAC is going to reclock the bitstream anyway (right?), and > there is no video to sync, why wouldn't you want the DAC (and pre- > amp and power source and line level amp) completely external from > componentary like embedded OS, TCP stack, NIC and WiFi radio > (especially)? That's where the boutique money goes in my guess - > integrating the latter complexity sufficiently well to obtain a > level of quality that is fairly straight forward to obtain with a > simple separates system...

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

...s I described above. But even without video or external channels, you still want to avoid reclocking the bitstream since it's possible to do so with the right design. > why wouldn't you want the DAC (and pre-amp and power source and > line level amp) completely external from componentary like embedded > OS, TCP stack, NIC and WiFi radio (especially)? Again, you're thinking along the right lines. Ideally, the DAC would be almost pure analog, with only the most minimal data and clock signals existing in the digital realm. However, take care that you don't sacrifi...