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Hi- Appreciate the suggestion! Unfortunately, this still didn't solve the problem however. Any other thoughts? Best, Shawn

Greetings and good day! After reading countless posts about the ease and fidelity of an audiophile-grade mac-based system, I have finally taken the plunge! I purchased an i-mac, appleTV and a Benchmark DAC with the plan of getting rid of my CD player and ripping my entire collection into the hard drive. However, after nearly a week of frustration, I am now appealing for help to try and get the setup to work. As for a little background, I do believe I have set up the appleTV correctly as iTunes does recognize it as a "device". When I try to stream a song from itunes through the appleTV, I get this error message: "An error occurred while connecting to the remote speaker, "apple TV". Unknown error -15,000." No matter what I do, I cant seem to get this to work. I have googled for a solution, but nothing seems to work that is suggested (I have the latest firmware, I have disabled the firewall, and I have set the IPv6 to off). Am I safe to assume that the Apple TV in my system should function the same as an airport express? When I open the airport utility to check whether the appleTV is recognized, I get a message that "there are no apple wireless devices that can be found". The appleTV is only 5 feet from my imac, so i know its not a signal issue. Furthermore, as I mentioned before, the appleTV shows up on the iTunes screen as an available device. Any thoughts on solutions? Many thanks in advance from a guy who is really trying to become a convert! Shawn

Thanks Chris- will do!

Thanks Russell- will do!

Greetings and good day!<br /> <br /> After reading countless posts about the ease and fidelity of an audiophile-grade mac-based system, I have finally taken the plunge! I purchased an i-mac, appleTV and a Benchmark DAC with the plan of getting rid of my CD player and ripping my entire collection into the hard drive. However, after three days of frustration, I am now appealing for help to try and get the setup to work.<br /> <br /> As for a little background, I do believe I have set up the appleTV correctly and iTunes does recognize it as a device. When I try to stream a song from itunes through the appleTV, I get this error message:<br /> <br /> "An error occurred while connecting to the remote speaker, "apple TV". Unknown error -15,000."<br /> <br /> No matter what I do, this doesn't seem to work. I have googled for a solution, but without much success. Am I safe to assume that the Apple TV in my system should function the same as an airport express? When I open the airport utility, I get a message that "there are no apple wireless devices that can be found". The appleTV is only 5 feet from my imac, so i know its not a signal issue.<br /> <br /> Any thoughts on solutions?<br /> <br /> any thanks in advance from a guy who is really trying to become a convert!<br /> <br /> Shawn

Greetings to all- First of all, I want to say how excited I was to learn of this website through my local high-end store. I have long-since appreciated the concept of using a computer as a high-fidelity source and have wondered why this concept hasn't been further developed (at least for the mainstream). My current setup, I am embarrased to say, consists of a Windows XP-based OS with stock headphone outputs split into RCA interconnects...finally fed into the preamp of my Bryston/Martin Logan based system..... I know, I know- given the level of sophistication that many of you have as evidenced from your posts, you must be cringing as my setup is the equivalent of mentioning two-buck chuck in a winespectator.com forum...In any case, please have patience for the guy who is passionate about this topic but knows VERY little about even where to start with respect to equipment. In that regard, I have just started employment in a place which will be supplying us with tablet-PC's. Unfortunately, apple does not support many of the applications they run, so it is out of the question unless I purchase this myself (which is not out of the question, by the way). I have a few general questions to start: 1. Are there any resources (or forum participants) who have experience with this topic using a Windows-based system? 2. What kind of hardware (e.g. sound cards, etc.) and/or other configuration should I look into with respect to the tablet PC itself? 3. I hate to say this, but I currenty just rip my CD's into iTunes and play from my library (I use the 256kbps choice). What are the options for finding audiophile-grade downloadable files and/or what software is available to 'rip' my CD collection into lossless files? Again, sorry for the lengthy and relatively juveline post. I'm sure its clear to all that I need some very basic resources to get up to speed. Best, Shawn