I am getting significant distortion when I connect my AirPort Express (AE) to an external DAC I currently have on demo. I have disabled volume control (via itunes) when connecting to the AE. Here's the setup
-Windows XP laptop running iTunes w/ Apple lossless encoding
-AirPort Express w/ mini to toslink optical cable
-Theta DS Pro Prime DAC (which I brought to the dealer today and we double checked, it worked fine)
-Adcom pre-amp that connects the rest of the stereo, (this works, I've double checked specific rca input)
Is there a special optical cable I need? Mine uses a removable toslink to mini adapter.
Do I need a more modern DAC to connect to the AE? My dealer told me that the AE has too much gain and this is causing the distortion.
