ztefan

Just a thought regarding your DAC. You often find the same circuits in many products. If your satisfied with only output, a quite simple converter can do the trick. For resonable good sound try google on "PCM2704". E.g. Mini PCM2704 Hi Fi USB DAC Sound Card Board Hi Fi

There is another way. I'm running a system with three different soundcards - connected to a 6 channel amplifier with stereo sound in three different rooms. I can direct any soundsource (e.g. streamed internetradio, youtube, spotify, VLC etc) to any of the cards or to all the cards simultaneously. I can control levels individually. I also control those functions from iPad, iPhone, Android phone and other computers. My setup: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with PulseAudio and Teamviewer. OK, the remote is actually just a remote control of the computer so it's not very elegant. Stefan