Robin said:
OK I'll admit it, I am with your wife...

I need a tutorial about FLAC vs. MP3 and AAC. Is their some way to explain it simply and easily, for the high tech challenged audiophiles like me.
Robin, there's quite a bit of internet chatter about the audiophile capabilities of PC-audio in general, and the Slimdevices Squeezebox, in particular.
For starters, check out this blog (not mine) about building a squeezebox based Audiophile Music Server...
http://musicserver.blogspot.com/
There are also many discussions about the Squeezebox (and similar technology) at audioasylum.com (PC-audio section), audiocircle.com, or hydrogenaudio.org (for FLAC, MP3, other Codec discussions).
IMHO, the simplicity of streaming lossless audio (i.e. FLAC), with or without an outboard DAC, directly to your amp, and then to planar speakers like ML's, is the simplest path to audio nirvana.