Bryston BDP-1 Digital Music Player

Designed as a companion to Bryston's well-respected BDA-1 DAC, the BDP-1 is a high resolution digital audio player with no DAC of its own.  Sort of like a disc-less transport.  Takes in digital audio data from its USB port, so your music stored in a USB hard drive and thumb drive would work.  the BDP-1 can also connects to a NAS drive on a network through an ethernet connection. Sorry no wifi at the moment.  The Linux-based machine connects to an external DAC via SPDIF outputs.  

Features

• Connects to external USB drive (one thumb drive included)
• 4 x USB ports (2 front, 2 back)
• 16-bit and 24-bit compatible
• 44.1kHz to 192kHz and everything in between
• Fanless, Linux based
• AIFF, FLAC and WAV compatible
• 1 x AES/EBU and 1 x BNC SPDIF outputs
• Galvanic isolation of inputs
• Controllable through a soon-to-be-released iPod/iPhone app

Well, at US$2,100 and no Wifi?  It must sound really really good to win people over from Windows or Mac based solutions, let alone a squeezebox touch's excellent digital output over wifi.  Or if you want to go overboard with the Mac, there is always the Mach2Music (a modified MacMini with Solid State Drive for $1,495).