George,

Yes, i just caught up to what you have been saying for some time now so excuse me if I in my exuberance repeat. ALSO the tantalizing prospect that in 6 months I might be able to take a giant step forward, well past my G91 and approach the quality of an 808.2 is like going back to my first Christmas!

Andy,

I will add one more thing. Others more knowledgable than I may suggest a better route, but in order to keep my first step as cheap and simple as possible I bought just a Sonos ZP90 and run it from my computer using BDPoweramp to rip to FLAC. Even I was able to get this set up and I am playing with my toy as I take my time to research NAS drives etc. If at any time I find that I should have done something differently I have kept my cost so low that I would have no qualms about changing.

I hope that may help.

Aloha,

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