Is the Squeezebox Touch complicated?

Love my SBT, and have yet to have a dropout. I paired it with a VortexBox Appliance (~$400), all connected to my home wifi network. I love the sound through my K-Works SuperBerry DAC. Every bit as good as playback from a CDP.

I am ripping many homemade CD-Rs of vinyl and other things that don't get any metadata. Using MP3tag, I edit all the tags by hand. A real PITA, but I need only do it once, and as Mapman said, GET BACKUP! I already had to restore from my backup when a Vortexbox upgrade went wrong and I had to do a clean install. Restoring from the backup worked like a charm! Besides, my CD-Rs of vinyl sound way better than Red Book CDs of the same recordings.

Squeezebox Touch = entry-level digital audiophilia for "dummies" (actually, smarties) :-P

"Squeezebox Touch = entry-level digital audiophilia"

That's a good thing.

Simply add the right external DAC to meet your sound expectations and no longer entry level in performance IMHO, rather, already a serious contender for most audio hounds.

I would hardly call the results I get with the Touch + Havana DAC "entry level". Far from it actually......

Shakey

Shakey, I'd say the same with SB touch with either my mhdt Paradisea or Constantine DACs.

Same true even with my older Roku Soundbridges I had prior to SB Touches. I moved to SB mainly to get to the newer technology from a user experience perspective.

The outboard DAC can make a huge difference, if needed, no doubt!

Maybe SB Touch + any mhdt DAC specifically is the secret sauce for high end digital audio on a budget?