bracurrie

I concur. I tried to re-engineer a speaker system once and got nothing but headaches. I would look at amp selection and speaker placement first. Then simple eq adjustments to taste. Room treatments may or may not be a big impact on what you are trying to accomplish.

Thanks again. I stand corrected on the Hilo. You have three pair of different outputs that can be configured. I love the flexibility and sound quality specs. I did spend some time with the Apogee support folks and they helped me configure using the Quartet for my needs, so maybe it will work. Also at half the price.

Thanks for the reply. The Lynx Hilo won't work because of multi channel. The others look promising. The pro-audio choices are so numerous, that is why I asked. Brad

I am currently using a Mac Pro running Mavericks. My player software is Pure Music, which handles the active crossover natively. I need 2 ch input for ripping vinyl and 3 pair of output channels for tri-amping. I have on approval an Apogee Quartet, but it seems to be geared more for recording and mixing. Would anyone have a suggestion for a DAC that has similar specs but would be better for dedicated music reproduction? FYI speaker system is made up of Klipsch Jubilee clone bass cabs with Crites drivers and Eliptrac 400 tweeter horns with Faital HF200 drivers and soon to be acquired taped horn subs. Amplification is Van Alstine SS for bass channels and Manley Labs tubes for tweeter channels. Still choosing the sub amp. Thanks - Brad Currie

I am trying to configure a chain that eliminates the pre-amp and a ADC/DAC active crossover in my bi-amped system. I want to use the crossover feature of PureMusic and a high quality EQ plug-in so that there is only one DAC in the chain. I am currently using a Van Alstine 24/44 DAC with fantasic results, but is only two channel. The Van Altine people offered for an added fee to utilize all four channels of their DAC chip in a custom build. That would allow for me to use the MAC as the front end and the AVA DAC to drive the two power amps. avahifi - The VISION DAC Does the optical out on the Mac mini have the ability to send two pair of streams like in a HT situation? Another poster to this thread has mentioned he had poor results with optical splitters. I am not schooled in digital and pro gear I was hoping to find a way to send two pairs of uncompressed streams from PurMusic to a DAC.

I was thinking of trying to use the optical toslink output of the mac mini to drive a Van Alstine DAC that requires S/PDIF inputs. Catch is that I bi-amp so Mr. Van Alstine said his chip has the ability to process 4 channels, but I don't know enough to get from toslink to 2 pair of S/PDIF outputs. I understand there are timing issue so maybe I need to go with a pro format instead of S/PDIF. Thanks Ahead.