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Get a used Squeezebox Touch on the Ebay.

It's a fine "learning tool" until more streamer transports get manufactured. (By my count, there are really only 4 or so of these).

If you don't already have a hard drive, and you want to, (and don't have an external DAC) & SPDIF cable to use with the SBT, - then you'll really blow through your budget fast).

Later, after you're familiar with all of this stuff, you can expand into stuff like NAS (network attached storage: hard drive that is ethernet/networked).

With the Squeezebox, - you get a (not too bad DAC), a USB port to attach an USB hard drive directly, - tons of Internet radio, music playback apps.

Mind you, none of this stuff will likely sound as good as some of the "better" $2000 CDP players. Yes, Internet radio & apps do not sound as good as CDPs.


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Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"


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