Nice but at over £2000 its a bit too 'hi-end'  - the Aune S1 looks a better bet. 

Had a look at a review of the Aune S1 (www.hi-fiworld.co.uk) - it looks pretty good for £500 - "way ahead of CD by fully exploiting high resolution recordings" - but the review does not really mention the sound quality you get with 16 bit recordings (ripped from CD) - presumably there is an...

...was really looking for 'high-end' hi-fi products that do it - from the likes of Rega, Linn, Cambridge Audio

Hi, I've just started looking into PC driven DAC's - it seems to be the case that one can't buy a DAC which reads WAV and FLAC files striaght from a USB stick or memory card and that you have to drive the DAC from a PC or laptop. I realise that a WAV file has to be played but am surprised that...