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How would you improve the sound of Squeezebox?

I just set up a NAS music server with Squeezebox Duet. The convenience of accessing all my music collection is really a great thing. Now the question is, how would you improve the sound of the Squeezebox digital output? I heard people say that SB's outputs digital signals with much jitter, so what DAC's(~$1000) would you use to reduce the jitter? i.e. what DAC's has the better ability to handle jitter? Any other ways that you can improve the SB's SQ?
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I had been running the digital output from my Squeezebox through my Audio Aero Capitole digital input with great results.

I also have a Transporter in my system and I am now running both through my Anthem D2. Really good results.

The Squeezebox DAC is not a good as the Transporter and the Transporter DAC is a bit too analytic...not all that warm-sounding...so using either the Capitole's DAC or (even better) using the D2 DAC delivers what I want.

Having said that, I am really impressed with either Slim Device product and I highly reccommend either, budget permitting.
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