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Hi This seems to be exactly what I need if it will work with an Arcam rDac and a NAS. Can you advise, please? QUOTE=livconcepts;322639]Hi, I represent LIV who produces the LIV Wave. Let me provide a bit more information about the Wave. The Wave is based indeed on LMS 7.8.1 and Squeezelite 1.6. This means not only you can play your stored music but also Internet Radio and online services such as Spotify and Qobuz (requires premium subscription). It now supports playing back DSD as well as PCM up to 24/384KHz. We've built a web user interface which is touch friendly and with minimal options so it's very easy to use. We've added the ability to either connect automatically to another LMS already running in the network (such as our own LIV server or other Vortexbox systems) but also to be able to connect directly to a NAS or to an USB drive. This is done directly from the Web UI and it's quite easy to do. You can also choose easily between the optical and USB outputs. But the real work has been done on the background, which sometimes people don't appreciate. We're not using the Ubuntu distribution that comes with Cubox. We've done a complete Debian-based OS, very lean, with a custom kernel optimised for USB latency. We've solved a number of problems with the Cubox platform such as Squeezelite stopping to play music after a couple of hours. It already includes additional drivers for DACs that don't work with Cubox by default, such as DACs based on the M2Tech Hiface 1 design. You can access the Wave directly by name on the browse, Mac or smartphone/tablet. You don't have this by default and provides a much better user experience. The ultimate goal of the Wave is to be an extremely easy to use streamer for those who don't have the technical skills or time to fiddle with getting it all to work. If you have a Vortexbox based server, you can simply connect an USB DAC, plug to the network and start it up. It's ready to play. If you'd like to use with a NAS or USB drive, the setup is dead easy. It just works. We'll be adding more features in the feature as we added the ability for the system to upgrade via the Web UI. Nuno