dumb question, streaming music to a preamp?


Hi. I am trying to put together a low cost system for my daughter, who is sharing an appartment with a few friends. We have a Luxman L-480 integrated amp and some TMM floorstanding speakers I built from a kit. She has WiFi in her appartement. She would like to use Spotify, which claims CD quality and allows you to select play lists or albums from more than 5 million albums. So how to get the music to the Luxman amp? Could buy a Sonos unit, but that is $399, which is about 1/2 the cost of everything else so far. Do not want to use a phone as have data streaming limits. Do not want to use a dedicated computer or iPad as too expensive as well. Any ideas out there. Could stream from her computer, but it just can not be tethered to the Luxman amp with a RCA cord. And if stream from her computer over WiFi, what device picks it up and converts to analog for the Luxman? Thank you for your help. This area is changing really quickly, and I have never even thought about it before.
john802
you could score a used Squeezebox Classic 3. it has a decent built-in DAC, you can find them for $80 on ebay, and the software is free. it does have a spotify app. there are also raspberry pi based versions of it.
John, Here are three approaches, listed in order of personal preference:

1. Apple Airport Express Base Station, $99, especially if your daughter already has Apple products.

2. Dragonfly DAC, by Audioquest? Get Version 1.2, available on Amazon for $150. Audioquest also has the cabling to go from Dragonfly to RCA. This is not wifi, but can sound great.

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/487-audioquest-dragonfly-review/

3. Another option is to find a used Playstation 3, $160-190 on Amazon, EBay. But I suspect other, more current solutions may be better by now.

BTW, I'm sure you daughter will appreciate such a thoughtful endeavor.
Amazon Prime TV supports various apps (not sure about Spotify exactly) costs only $99, supports hi res video and audio via standard TOSLINK output (digital outputs only though), and Amazon PRime members get various free A/V content included. I'm using it in my A/V system mainly with PLEX app for music streaming.