What is the best transport?

" shows what a headache it is to enen get started with all this computer audio business, and that's before something crashes, freezes, has indecipherable instructions if there are any at all, etc."

Firstly, in good server you do not have this
Secondly, select right company to buy this server from: company with established record of excellent customer support.

All The Best

There is an article here that you might want to look at involving a shootout between a transport and a music server. Make of it what you will.

http://www.high-endaudio.com/RC-Digital.html#Comp

I would recommend the OPPO with the add-in card to reduce jitter reviewed in TAS in January issue.

Audiopraise Vanity 93 module

http://audiopraise.com/vanity93/overview.php

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

Happy New Year to all! The update as to what I have done and am currently doing is as follows:

1.Bought a PS Audio PWT
2.Auditioned an Esoteric P-03 and had a shoot out with the PWT.
3.The Esoteric was returned to the dealer. I could not hear a $15K difference.
4.I am in the waiting period for delivery of a Music Vault server from Sound Science.

A friend of mine bought a Music Vault server and his experience with Neal Van Berg has been exemplary with regard to installation and start up. SQ may/may not meet my expectation. At the least I have gotten off the snide and am inching forward with something different .

The old adage - " suck it and see " is where I have landed.

How are you gonna interface your server with the DAC ?