Why is digital audio so complicated? Where did it all go wrong?

[Hifi_swlon]

….i am considering products like the Melco's, these are said sounding better then air. But these Melco's seem still lacking in being easily controlled. If i understand it correctly, you still have to feed a Melco from a PC/Mac, exactly the one thing i want to remove from the link.

I'm not one of them, but there are a few Melco users here. My understanding is it doesn't require a computer to be connected- you can use a tablet to directly control it.