Thanks,Fatevis,and Wireless,for your input. I guess I'll stick with the Saturn as a stand alone. Funny thing is, I thought the Saturn would indeed make a good transport with its unique chipset. I acknowlege that a superb digital cable would be necessary to keep its clocking intact. I don't know, I thought a super DAC, maybe tubed, would improve upon Saturn's internal DAC. Also, I wanted a DAC for media-player/PC purposes.