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Thanks for the suggestion! The "old laptop" solution indeed seems perhaps the best one in my case! I found these prices: * IFI - NANO IDSD DAC Price: $189.00 * Audioquest DragonFly DAC Price: $149.00 so they look to be in target! :-) In the meanwhile somebody else suggested me to take a look to RuneAudio or VolumIO. Do you have any experience with these open source systems? A raspberry + hifiberry shield could be another cheap solution (of course I would need to use my smartphone or a tablet to send commands to the raspberry!!)... Thanks!

Hi all, I'm quite new to this field and I'm a bit confused by the large amount of products available on the market. I'm looking for a Media Renderer / music player to connect to my existing Technics SU-V500 amplifier (which has an AUX input taking L/R audio channels with RCA connectors). My requirements would be: - cheap solution (something < 200€ !) - it should be able to read music from an USB drive/key OR getting it from my LAN network (i.e., act as DLNA player I think), audio format supported should be MP3 / FLAC and possibly others (e.g. MPEG4 .m4a, etc) - it should have a nice interface, possibly an APP that I can install on my smartphone/tablet, that allows me to browse my music collection Can you help me suggesting some solution? So far I've seen Linn products but those are definitively out of my budget! Thanks a lot! Francesco