Chronology of what was authored in the year 2014
Ideally, when you want to hear music everything should just work, but what it means to "just work" is different for each person.
I want high quality sound with reasonably straight-forward setup and willing to spend more for components beyond merely docking a portable music player or mobile phone.
For me, this means individual components for storing songs versus processing digital audio and separate speakers with fairly wide range.
Following a bit of background on current options and decisions made, gritty details about software configuration and off-the-shelf components are given. Most may be followed by someone with cursory knowledge of Linux command-line access.