Trolling

[Antoine]

Me sounding arrogant would sound like: buy an analog amp and a CD player and you're done.

I'm sorry but I am not going to respond in depth to your reply, let's agree to disagree. I am an IT guy and understand the issues one could face but to me you come across as someone who's currently thinking in problems, not solutions. It would be a waste of time for me to counter your arguments. The choices you make are yours, and yours alone and if your mind is made up it's a done deal. Good luck in finding the/an optimal solution for yourself.

edit: there is one thing I do like to say; with AIR there is no real -need- for optimizing a computer based platform. It is something some people (including myself) like to do when all is running smooth. It's nothing more than trying to squeeze out a few extra percent of performance out of the setup but without it it is fine as well. In short you reading about people here doing this doesn't mean you have to. If a closed platform like the Linn DS's together with a pre-configured NAS gives you more peace of mind, simply admit to that and go for it.

You wrote: "My Devialet can do it. Why doesn't it?". I'd say if it could it would! If it maybe can in the future is nothing more than a nice bonus but not really something I'd wait for since you have little to no influence (let alone certainty) in it becoming available.