Servers: Are we there yet?

oblgny,

Glad the Sony worked out for you. 

I am still deciding my next move for a renderer/streamer. I've been captivated by the pre-launch discussion surrounding the Sonore Microrendu, which is coming out sorta-soon maybe, with price TBD. Lively debate on Computeraudiophile about it.
There's a good chance I'll go DIY, with a friend building a low powered Linux-based computer to use strictly for local and streaming audio, controlled by Daphile, Volumio or similar free software. It's the wild west out there in digiland! Cheers,
Spencer 

I have been lurking this thread and many others for about 4 months.  Without a large budget to work with, but wanting bit perfect server feeds to the dac, I purchased an Auraliti PK100 with power supply here on Audiogon.  I ordered a Trendnet ethernet over power line kit from Amazon, plugged one module in a wall socket in the office and connected that to my router with a cat 5 cable from Blue Jean Cables.  I plugged the other module into a wall socket in my audio room (at the other end of the house) and connected that to my PK100, then connected the PK100 to my dac via toslink, turned everything on, and presto! Using my wife's old ipad I now have a great sounding digital jukebox.  Does it sound as good as my Meridian G08 cd player?  I'm not sure, I have not done any a/b listening, not sure I will because it all sounds damn good.  I am in the process of ripping my cd collection to flac using dbpoweramp.  I agree with the statements that there is still work to be done in computer audio, but having fingertip access to any song/artist on over 1000 cds is crazy cool.   

@hcalland Im' also using Lumin T1 and A1 before. and now getting a U1 to improve the system. 
And i believe you already updated your power supply from your T1 correct? if not this is the step ONE to improve.

@ben2300 Actually I started out with a Lumin D-1, and upgraded to the A-1. It of course has the external power supply, and I used a Synology NAS. Need to choose a backup option now.  Loving the convenience and sound quality. 

I will ill be interested in your thoughts on the U-1.

jrun, Let us know how your setup sounds after you've had some time to listen to it.