Musically: Forget !!!!!! Well yes, the sound is catastrophic. Even if you are as deaf granny that, you can not endure the horror comes out of this thing especially if you listen to music with the guitar distortion. You can put all you want behind DAC, this will not change anything because the problem comes from the digital signal: there is a whole lot of 1s and 0s that should get lost on the way ... That said, when you see the price of compatible network drives NDLA and AirPlay, it was believe in Father Christmas, right?
CPL side, he does his job. Satisfactory rate. The CPL is really compatible with the CPL 500 XAVT5421 Netgear. The USB socket is convenient (for a printer, right?, Not for a DAC .... :-()