You can also consider the Rio Receiver, which is essentially the same product as the AudioTron except it was designed and coded by the empeg team.

No digital out, though. Its RCA and speaker outs should be quite clean, however.

Drawbacks:
- Doesn't connect to a Samba share, the server needs to run specific software to work.
- Sorely in need of a point release to fix a couple of bugs, one of which is a database size limitation bug.
- Player software isn't as advanced as the Empeg Car software. For instance, there is no "tweak order" option.

Advantages:
- Can run third-party servers like JReceiver on Linux boxes.
- Very stable, can use HPNA or ethernet, great sound quality.
- Some hacking has been done, for example, you can run Displayserver on the unit as well as Voladj.