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...ally on the contrary. Cheap in terms of simple to spend money > where it's going to make a difference on audio quality (not in a > Flac decoder device containing knocked up electronics from a PC > manufacturer). Besides cheap can mean reasonable design too: > > http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_111597/article.html > > 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...

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

...ally on the contrary. Cheap in terms of simple to spend money > where it's going to make a difference on audio quality (not in a > Flac decoder device containing knocked up electronics from a PC > manufacturer). Besides cheap can mean reasonable design too: > > http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_111597/article.html That may or may not be an improvement. It really depends upon the DVD player. For one thing, as I've hopefully explained above, the choice to use TOSLINK cripples the system such that even this high-quality 24/96 DAC cannot operate from a local crystal c...