I was puzzled by the sentence "We are glad to see the high-end market start to embrace digital audio". There have been network audio players by Arcam, Bryston, Cambridge Audio, Cyrus, Denon, Linn, Marantz, Musical Fidelity, NAD, Naim, and many others. The high-end market caught on to it much earlier than Apple and Co. (And of course the CD is digital audio too, and has been around for more than 30 years.) The main question is however: who still needs a CD player? Ripping with dBpoweramp and playing from a NAS system is more convenient, less expensive, and offers better sound quality.