I wanted to get my feet wet with the music streamer playback with minimum out of pocket funds. If I like I will invest in a very highend one in the near future. Below is the make up of it. So far It sounds great!
I'm using dBpoweramp to rip my CDs to flac uncompress. Also it's all 5GHz wireless and does not skip a beat at all! Temp storage is a desktop PC in my office with a 1TB for now.
Existing Toshiba Laptop/Vista OS
Player is foobar2000
External DAC is the HRT Music Streamer II USB
Existing MOTOROLA XOOM Android Tablet
Realvnc server on laptop and client on the tablet
A pair of Vampire RCA I had laying around for years.
