NAD Masters M50.2 Digital Music Player & Aurender A10 Music Server

For the longest time I resisted the world of music streaming because it required using a computer to kluge together programs, services, and devices of often widely differing provenance—all this without even mentioning the sixteen feet of cable stretching from sofa, where I sit with laptop, to equipment shelf, where resides the DAC with the rest of the electronics. I should come clean: As a film editor I spend most of my working days in front of a computer; ditto for my writing, not to mention correspondence, much shopping, considerable research, processing my photography, tasks for my various teaching duties, …