idm, i haden't given much thought to using the nit as a server(headphones), but rather the other way around as in piping my canola audio to one of the outputs on my nix box.

This begs the question... What audio stream is it that a desktop can play that the nit cannot? Playing a CD??? That makes no sence.

I'm sure there are many good reasons to use pulse in this mannor. But using the nit as a client(player) has many more.