Hello guy's
I've been lurking here a while trying to get my head around all this newfangled digital stuff, my roots are firmly in the land of vinyl allthough I recently sold my blinged out Linn as the modern world beckoned.
Anyway after some reading I got myself a Macbook running snow leopard and am ripping to AIFF in itunes.
This is to be used purely as a music server.
Currently ripping CD colection only
Itunes is to keep SWMBO happy (I can manage her ipod etc)
This is running through USB to a V-DAC and into my ageing system.
This is my first MAC tho' I've been tinkering with PC's pretty much constantly since the day's of MSDOS2.1 and have run the V-DAC under vista allthough doubts were cast in my mind as to itunes under windows
A couple of questions if I may?
(1) The macbook only offers/see's my DAC as "usbdac" and offers either 41000 or 48000 and 16 bit (one or 2 channel) and nothing higher.
Even the internal speakers get up to 96000 and 24 bit so what am I doing wrong? most options are greyed out or simply offer the one setting.
If I (say) use this example:
http://www.usbdacs.com/Macintosh/Macintosh.html and scroll down the wavelength seems to be recognised and has all the options.
(2) Is USB the best option for the V-DAC ?? I can't see an obvious way to connect optical and there is no firewire400 input.
FWIW rest of system is mainly Naim ( 82 2xHiCaps 2x135's & CDS running into a pair of Shahinian Hawks)
Sound is pretty good but I just think I'm missing something?
In time I'll probably look at a better DAC, maybe Amarra or similar but for now I want to see what this achieves.
Many thanks for any input
Paul
Nottingham UK