Best music transporter since Squeezebox is gone?

fastfwd wrote:

The Duet would probably work fine, too; I'm just familiar with the Touch. Also, I would want to use an external DAC with any player I bought, and Triode's "Enhanced Digital Output" applet allows the Touch to drive USB DACs... Of which I have a few. My Squeezebox Radio is just a bedroom radio, nothing fancy. The Squeezebox 3 is in my main system, feeding an ancient Audio Alchemy DDE3.0 DAC (I've never used the Squeezebox analog outputs). Small mods on the Squeezebox 3: power supply, some additional decoupling caps, a BNC connector for the coax digital output. Everything communicates over Wi-Fi. The Squeezeboxes can't go faster than 802.11g, so I have a dedicated WRT54GL access point to keep them from having to compete for bandwidth with the various 2.4GHz 802.11n devices in the house. (I'm not actually sure that it makes a difference, but it can't hurt and I had the WRT54GL lying around anyway.) The server is LMS 7.8.0, running on my Pro 6 now. The music is all FLAC ripped from my CD collection. My haveged addon is installed so the random-play modes will actually play a random selection of music.

Thanks for excellent information!

Triode's Enhanced Digital Output looked interesting:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?94512

Decoupling capacitor - new to me, very good info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling_capacitor

What DAC would you recommend today for a Squeezebox Touche for a normal audio system?
Argon, Nuforce, HRT, Fiio, ...

Are you using a stronger power supply? If so what's the gain?

Squeezebox Touche looks like it's the most versatile (and it's the latest one):
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/S ... y_Overview
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/support/speakers-audio

I still can't believe that they binned the Squeezebox line. Why not sell it? Crazy.