Or a used squeezebox or you can try a wdtv live if you reenencode the ALAC. Or you can try your TV if it is DLNA. Drew

I have only played with one briefly, but check out bluesound node. Might do the trick. Drew

Want to make sure I understand. You want to send lossless audio from smart phone (apple?) to your home audio system? Using your phone both as server and as control point? And some fikes are greater than 16/24? All in ALAC or FLAC or??? Drew

Cost vs value is subjective. For me, cost of jriver delivers way more value vs free options for what I ext to do with my system. And trust me, not all players use your GPU the same. Full disclosure, I work at AMD and can tell you not all players are equal in terms of performance, power...

More options than you could imagine.... See great resource here:http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/524-complete-guide-hifi-upnp-dlna-network-audio/ There are a lot of other options too. There are a lot of ways to skin this cat. Drew

Have not tried on an S4 (don't have one) but on my S3 it was a no go....at least directly connected to the phone.  Might be able to make it work with a powered hub, but that defeated the purpose of being mobile for me so I haven't bothered to try it.   Drew

"Rig" seems like to big a word. When I travel I use a vizio windows 8.1 laptop (full disclosure, I work for AMD and the laptop uses our processor), a portable USB 3 HDD with my media library (alac or flac, some 24/96 or greater), dragonfly and then either directly into the ER4-P or into a...

You can always hard-wire resistors into your headphone cables to increase impedance....See thread here for some pre-made ones: http://www.head-fi.org/t/601669/impedance-adapters-cables-explained-listed Alternately, but a USB DAC/headphone amp and cut out the audio from your PC. For $99, the...

I do this into a gen 2 Apple TV.  Not in front of it right now, but fairly certain ALL music on ATV is resampled to 48 khz (up or downsampling).  For AE, i believe the default is 44.1 and that there is no way around this.  You need to get out of the Apple ecosystem to have a media receiver that...

Hopefully you pulled the trigger....agree with others on the thread that for ~$80 you can't go wrong.  Spend the extra cash on your PC audio s/w and wait for the upgrade bug to bite.   I love my Dragonfly and use with with Grado's when at office and Ety 4Ps when travelling.  Mirror my music...