Jitter seems to be one major factor in receiving digital from transport. What about using high quality player like Linn Majik DS which receives the audio directly via Ethernet, can buffer that and does the conversion to analogue. This way jitter is nearly eliminated in my opinion. Or what about...

A Dune BD Prime is a Linux. But that's not about getting better quality.

Linn Network Players are quite expensive, but most audio magazines are sure they are the best in terms of audio quality. What about comparing a Linn Majik DS with a Benchmark DAC. This is around 2500 Euro against 1500 Euro. When using an alternative cheap network player source (like a Dune BD...

Hi :-)   want to improve my audio quality at home. Having as source 96/24 BD Prime Network/BR Player. Digital to analog conversion is done by Arcam AVR600 which is also the amplifier. Sometimes I'am also using the Arcam as network-player because of its possibilty to get audio stream directly...