...perhaps it wasn't just beer
I'm pretty sure I'm on the latest piCorePlayer upgrade, and am using the latest Squeezeplayer from Triode...so it's still going to require Putty & SSH to get into the alsamixer, with the ip address I'd reckon you'll be SSH'd to your Pi within 30 seconds...the great thing about getting into the ALSAMIXER is it's 'real time', you can slide the master 'PCM' volume up and down to find the sweet spot for your pre-amp...it took me a day to realise this I'd assumed that it required a reboot to change the settings...
The nice thing that piCorePlayer provides is the 'sudo alsacfg store' command, which commits your settings to the config file for restoration on reboot
I won't bother going into the sound quality of the pi-DAC+, enough has already been mentioned, the other thing that is wonderful when using the piCorePlayer/pi configuration is that it's connectivity and performance amongst 4 other SBdevices, synced or not, is bullet proof! It can't be crashed, or corrupted, and laughs in the face of power cuts...es los testículos perros!!!