I see the ease of use in the pc.
For high demand but you should work only with ASIO drivers.
an external sound card is of course better than a built-in (HF disorders).
my playersoft for flac/wav are cPlay
http://cicsmemoryplayer.com/index.php?n=CPlay.Features

with the new versions of some logitech´s you can also play 24Bit/96kHz very nice!