Bukem

I see JRiver is offered for OSX as well. Good news. I will investigate as the iTunes GUI is becoming less and less intuitive with each new release.

Thanks for the tip. Will certainly do so. What made you steer towards the Motu? I was planning on doing all the EQ inside my DAW (Logic X or MainStage) via the Apple or Fabfilter plugins using iTunes as source. From memory Jriver is not on OSX. I will check. Cheers, Bukem

Hi, I'm looking at the same sort of stuff. Planning on doing 3,5 way active so in need of 8-channel DAC. I bought a Motu Hybrid MKIII (MOTU.com - UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid Overview) to get a working prototype. The unit has 8-in, 8-out and a Mic preamp so all you need is in one box. It has USB + FW. For the money not a bad dac at all. Once it's all up an running I'd be looking at a Sabre based multichannel dac. Units that interest me are the Motu 24Ao, 16A, Focusrite Rednet 1, Universal Audio Apollo (not sure this has Sabre converters). What I like about the Focusrite (Dante) and Motu's (AVB) is that they (can) interface via Ethernet (audio + control over IP). I just want the best bang for buck and not pay for 32 mic and headphone inputs etc which I won't be using. Looking forward to see which other candidates might pop-up. I'd really want to stay below €2K. Reds, Bukem

I'd like to offer my Geek Pulse Xfi for sale. I received mine earlier this week after a two year wait but need a multichannel dac instead.

If that is the case then I will most likely not pursue this route and use longer balanced interconnects instead.

Indeed. I will build my own active speakers so integrating the DAC and ancillaries will be the least of my worries. I know iTunes allows streaming to multiple airplay devices at once but I have only one Airport Express at the moment so can't test it myself until I decide to purchase a second one.

The idea would be to give each active speaker its own airport and dac such that you effectively end up with a speaker requiring just a power cable.

Hi, I was wondering if this has been attempted before and wether both speakers are properly in sync. Two expresses' with 2x a Toslink to RCA DAC is what I am thinking of. Need good quality though but since the Express is bit perfect it could work out ok. Rgds, Bukem