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I had seen it. They're good, it seems. But, since it's not so cheap, what about just using popcorn just as a transport? It has a spdif coax output. Connecting this to a fairly good dac would in your opinion have sense? 2nd question (really really thank you): do dacs with two outputs exist? I mean: outuputs for two different sound systems. In this way one output would be represented by an amp in the living room, the other by two active speakers in the "pc room" (I would have to find a way to pass the wires through the wall, tho). Does it make sense or does it look stupid (in terms of cost/audio quality)?

Hi Criss, first of all thanks a lot for all this. And thanks also to you, 466rico. Without your post all the other member would have been annoyed with a long boring post from myself This is were I am: I've got 2 rooms. 1 "pc room" and, on the other side of the wall, the "living room". I've got all my collections coded in flac, and an echo audiofire 4 as soundcard (psc room, of course). First of all: budget: +/- 4000 €. in the living room I'd like to have a device to listen to music and watch movies (and the latter has no importance to me in terms of quality, so I would go for a music oriented 2.1 system). At the moment in the living room I have a popcorn hour bmt (http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/) which is ok because it lets me access my .flac files through lan. It is a fact that on the long term I can't depend just on popcorn's internal (cheap) dac. So what should I do? Just by the way, if you think there's a device like the popcorn, but more "audiophile oriented", just advise me. I'm willing to change this, if it's the case. Thanks really a lot for everything you could tell me. I'm getting frustrated here with all my serching and lurking in the forums...