Qnap NAS to Devialet?

[ogs]

A JRiver equipped NAS is indeed interesting, relatively simple, plus the benefit of the excellent JRemote control app.  This might be a crazy thought, but I do wonder if running Windows 2012 server plus AIR / WASAPI on a NAS might be better for sound quality?  Why?  Well I'm not totally convinced that the USB output on a Qnap will be that optimal from a sound quality perspective?

 It is difficult to know. I do not know which USB hardware Qnap is using on these boxes. As the processor is Intel I'd guess that it may be some Intel chip or even integrated in the SOC. My experience is that I get better sound from USB via linux/alsa than 2012R2 on the same NUC. And better stability..