Looks very interesting. Will drastically reduce room noise floor down to zero vs fan based computer based audio servers.

iPod doesn't have the ultra low jitter clocks nor the support for dsd and flat.

With a remote control, it makes things easier to switch songs. Windows server has its advantages on format support and streaming and storage options. But windows server runs on more power(more heat) and usb interface still has electrical noise issues. this aune has electronical isolation and a less noisy(Emi/rfi) arm cpu.

It's not really that expensive too, it's just around the usd500 mark before shipping.

Might be a dumb question, but isn't the nanosecond range for digital jitter pretty poor?

Yes, 1ns would be considered horrible levels of jitter. Even the worst USB converters like the M2Tech Hiface run in the 600-800ps range. The best ones are sub 50ps.

Tiny fanless boxes are a dime a dozen these days, there are loads of them, and running Atom or ULV core processors, they use very little power. You can install VortexBox or Daphile on an internal M.2 SSD and you're good to go, and control everything from your phone.

That has to be a mixup, I think a lot of DACs would have trouble locking onto a signal with ns of jitter.