My use case is pretty simple. I can drop my CD player and put this on top of my Mac mini server and use it to rip CDs to my computer or stream CDs directly to my DAC. the funny thing is I wouldn’t even use a third of its features. I wanted something like this soooo bad five years ago and couldn’t believe no one has made one. I guess the day has arrived. It’s a nice piece of kit for $150. This could be your entire desktop headphone setup.

@Mark I bought a fiio that sends wireless lossless audio. The sending end is essentially a USB sound card. We've had it nearly 10 years and it is still kicking along

@chilort a lot of those high end Bluetooth codecs are lossy. A cheap rpi WiFi streamer can give you piece of mind. Do you know what codec it uses?

@Mark no clue

@chilort I think LDAC came out in 2015. It was billed as high res but it’s not actually lossless. It’s annoying because it has enough bitrate to support a lossless CD quality stream. If this is for your nice Klipsch system with that really nice tube amp this could be an inexpensive bottleneck in your chain. Only because you have a *crazy* nice setup.

@Mark oh, no. We use the fiio to send music outside when I've got that system set up (parts have been in the garage for painting purposes). My current dac is built into the MiniDSP SHD (never used DiracLive before and, um, I can do a better job with REW). I can't hardly wait to build the sub I'm going to build to go with the Belles (similar to LilMike's LilWrecker but more for music than movies)