Thx all for the support... I'm a mess but I'm nothing special, you have ahouse fall on you and you expect some collateral mental dekarmafication....
so, anyway
This is where its at
looks like shit, it really needs a case (on its way) needs a WiFi dongle (on its way)
But... it works out of the box, its jacked into ATC100s like i did with the FiiO D3 but this has both hardware and software volume control options.
RaspPi/HifiBerry DAC and Volumio Linux OS plays from 16/44.1 up to 24/192 DSD and all bit perfect. This is where I went after I amassed enough FLACs to require moving from an Apple Airport Express. Its early days but wow... wow wow wow wow
£80 for a tidy little wireless streamer, ignore the scary text stuff, thats under the hood. It uses a slick minimal uncluttered web interface. Stick a USB or SSD drive in the USB port and/or stream for a NAS wired or Wireless, plays Airplay Too, so Spotify gets a look in too. It will suit my "invisible all the things" ethic.
Ping Ponging between Benchmark DAC1 and my Symphony i/o multichannel DAC and the DACs built into my mixing desk...
Pfffff. Its not worth losing sleep over.