Peter, what I've been using the past few years to listen to streaming classical music stations from all over the world on my HT setup is the
Xitel HiFi Link . This is basically a cable that plugs into the USB port on my laptop to pick up the digital output, then a DAC to convert to analog and another cable to feed the regular L/R analog inputs on one of my receivers(none of them have a USB input port). Simple and works well, of course.
Another device that plugs into the USB port on the laptop is the
Turtle Beach Micro , which takes the digital USB output, adapts it to an optical digital cable, which then feeds the optical input on the receiver, as usual.
