Pettyofficer,
As you may know from previous posts, for the most part I share your disdain for computer audio. But the compromise I found was the Bryston BDP-1. I had all this music on my computer already for my iPod, so it was a simple matter of backing it up on a HDD, plugging the HDD into the BDP-1, connecting the DAC and off you go. Pretty much the same as a transport to a DAC, except instead of CD's you have a HDD containing all the CD's. Works for me and the sound is astonishingly good.
Neal