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Use a Mac instead of an iPod as stereo system source
Authored by: sjc1204 on Jul 07, '07 09:22:31AM

I'm trying to go all Mac as well and have had decent luck.

I use an Intel mini with a massive external drive for my iTunes music library . I don't have a keyboard or mouse connected to this computer so I'm using Front Row on the display I use for all my TV/DVD watching. iTunes prefs are set to import and then eject discs and then grab album artwork so it's fairly automated. For any admin or tagging I need to do, I use VNC which is very reliable.

Always ripping to Apple Lossless, I'm using a toslink optical cable to my Denon AV Receiver which powers some Paradigm Reference monitors. I also have 2 Airport Express units on two other systems in the house.

The fidelity on the system with the mini / toslink config is darn good and while it's not full blown CD quality, it's very close. The convenience and ability to have this great looking interface on my TV with beautiful album covers is worth the slight hit.

Now, the systems with the AE units don't fair so well. I can hear the fidelity hit and it does bug me.



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Use a Mac instead of an iPod as stereo system source
Authored by: makip on Jul 09, '07 04:28:16PM

Have you also used an optical connection from the AE's to each of the receivers, or just a regular headphone cable?



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