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The Touch can be bought on Amazon for about 265.00 .
It will allow you to stream files from your PC to your stereo.
The Touch has a good DAC built in.
Rip a CD at lossless file size and compare it to the same music you bought online at MP3.
See if you hear a difference.
You may be surprised just how good your MP3s sound.
OTOH you will likely want to purchase lossless (FLAC) files in the future. HD space is so cheap now there is little reason for lossy compression in home storage.
Most people have lossles for home use and dupe the files to lossy for the Ipod etc.
Thanks very much for the reply. I've been reading some about the Squeezebox but it is still somewhat of a mystery to me. I'll have to look a little closer at the Touch. I had ripped cds as a WAV file before but went to mp3 so I could use the files on my ipod. How can I convert a WAV to mp3 and leave the WAV file intact?
Thanks again.