Hi everybody! This is my first post here, I just joined the community and I’ve to say that I’m very impressed of what I’ve seen so far!!!! I envy of most of the setups that I’ve seen ;-). I’m also new at the “audiophile” world, I just finished my first setup for listening music, and I can tell that although is by far less impressive of all the kits showed here at the thread, I can hear a huge improvement compared with my previous sound system (a compact Samsung audio system)…
Here’s my setup:
MacMini 2010 (with optical unit), 8Gb RAM, Mountain Lion, Music storaged at a Firewire 800 HDD
Audirvana (iTunes integrated mode)
DAC: Dacmagic 100 from Cambridge Audio (connected via USB)
Amplifier; hybrid amplifier Carot One – Ernestolo
Airport Express connected to the DAC via Toslink (to stream via AirPlay)
Speakers: Polk Audio Monitor 35B
As you can see, it is not the fanciest, but that’s what I can afford (at least today…), I built it after looking several options at internet and adjusted them to my budget…
More than show my gear I would like to hear some comments about the setup I chose, from all the experts out there!
Thanks in advance!