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  1. Here’s my deal; I have been a life-long audiophile, although in recent years I have given up my past habit of constantly upgrading pieces of my system. About seven or eight years ago I got it to a point where I finally said “ok this works”. I had streamlined everything down to just the essential elementals and all “A” rated bits – a Wadia CD player with digital volume control, one of Nelson Pass’s single-ended amps, a pair of Gallo two ways and a really good sub - all strung together with silver Audioquest and some custom power cords and filtering. After having lived with lots of different rigs, I finally found one that was satisfying… Increasingly in the past couple of years I have enjoyed the convenience of digital music management, first primarily on an iPod and an Itunes-based desktop system and now wanting to flow that ease into the big rig… I have a new HP Pavilion Laptop with 750GB of outboard storage. I have about 1000 CD’s ripped onto that HD all in Apple Lossless files. At the office we share music and I have access to about 30,000 songs in all sorts of resolutions and formats. So after doing a bunch of reading from all sorts of sources on the web, I have been thinking about two options. The first would be to buy the best out-board USB DAC I can afford, an Apple Airport Extreme and pull the Wadia out of the system except on the occasions that I wanted to reconnect it to player red book CD’s one at a time. My questions there would be: Which DAC? Is USB the best connection? And how do I best manage the volume control I will need running the DAC directly into the power amp (use a DAC based volume control or rely on Itunes or HP volume controls)? The other option is to send the Wadia CD player back to the factory and have a digital input board added ($600) that would allow me to use the DAC in the CDP. The input on that board is either Tos-link or coax so I am not exactly sure what the best wireless solution is there. Thoughts?
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