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Best DAC for my system?
The Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 at $400 is a stereophile class A recommended DAC. Someone mentions what they are comfortable paying I'll guide them to the best I can find at that price not something 5 times the price.I was pleasantly surprised by the Pro-... 
Those with DACs, how do you view and select your music?
Some pre amps and streamers have USB where you can attach hard drives or access a NAS like you do with your Oppo, some streamers have hard drives in them. Most of these devices are controlled by apps on phones or tablets some you can do what you’r... 
Those with DACs, how do you view and select your music?
I don't  use a DAC to view and select music I use a streamer and an app on my tablet, some streamers have DAC's though.  
Best DAC for my system?
Pro- Ject Pre Box S2 is  $400 at Music Direct with a 60 trial period. If you use Tidal it will do MQA if that matters to you.  
Aurender N100 software update, now Aurender Media Manager is incompatible!
Go to roon and look up rock or just Google roon rock it runs on specific NUC’s. They give a list I got a fanless i5 with 8gigs of ram and a 250 G M.2 SSD cost around $600. Roon ROCK is a free download from roon it’s their OS optimized to run roon ... 
Those with DATs, how do you view and select your music?
Just curious but what's an optical drive/DAT ? I thought it was digital audio tape?  
Aurender N100 software update, now Aurender Media Manager is incompatible!
I run roon ROCK on a fanless NUC cost $600. You can connect the NUC by USB to your DAC or use an endpoint.you can connect USB drives to it as well. 
Are all red book cd transports created equal?
If the old pioneer is working properly and you go through the same dac it should work fine.  I think the weak link of that player was the slow write speed.  
Streaming Music through my home stereo
The Node2i is airplay 2 compatible and the bluOS works on the iPhone but I don't think it can interface direct with apple music. Apple is working on their own end point.  
TEAC NT-505 impossible connecting to WiFi router o such LAN: help me please?
You're English is a lot better than my Italian. Ciao  
Rotel and Bi-Amping
You can bi-amp those 805's but the Rotel puts out 5 x 200 watts per channel, 200 watts is more than enough for those speakers. If you want to a simple Google search will show you diagrams of both horizontal and vertical bi-amping.  
TEAC NT-505 impossible connecting to WiFi router o such LAN: help me please?
You might try flashing the 505 with a previous firmware silvio66.  
TEAC NT-505 impossible connecting to WiFi router o such LAN: help me please?
It's only going to give a MAC address once it has an IP address. ARP needs the IP address to work. If the Teac doesn't have an IP address handed out by DHCP it's not going to respond to ARP. For some reason it's not getting an IP address try putti... 
TEAC NT-505 impossible connecting to WiFi router o such LAN: help me please?
Might check if your  router is set to hand out IP addresses by DHCP. Looks like the Teac is trying to get an address and is timing out. Other than that you could try Teac support it could be a bad chip. 
Roon's update sounds really good
The modem connects you to the ISP, you can have a modem/ router combo, not sure what you mean by grab garbage from them?