Hey! Thanks Sandstone (and Steve) for your expertise.
I think what I've gleened from all this is, I can rip to ALAC (which is good for Ipod purposes) and convert to WAV in certain circumstances. That sounds excellent.
Does anybody have a suggestion for MAC S/W to accomplish the conversion?
It appears also that Music Players/Streamers are primarily music managers, I'll have to get back to them when I have some management experience.
Thanks again to all.
p.s. Steve, I'm still working on that system, but the monobloc's confuse me. I think I better stick with an integrated that has a phono amp, simple is good.