Thanks, @7ryder. My apols if it was me who was not clear .
Shows just how much I have to learn - and perhaps the origins of my confusion… to what extent does a Nucleus duplicate (probably unnecessarily for me) existing hardware?
I do listen in only one room… it’s likely to stay that way. (Although it may be a different room one day - soon, my wife and I hope: but I can’t subject her to my music by distributing it around the house!)
Yes, I’m pretty sure I’d connect my ParaSound (P6) to any eventual Nucleus via USB… I don’t think the P6 supports alternatives.
But I see what you are saying about using an iPhone (etc.) as a kind of ‘remote’ - as for a TV. Yes?
Really, I don’t want to complicate things, and - as others have kindly advised - I may have already got the best I can.
My concern is to try and plan for a (much) larger Library because I’ve stopped buying CDs and fear bogging down my iMac (and any further computers). If Nucleus takes processor cycles off the computer, then isn’t that a good thing?