steve33

What I understand is that if I want to use the airport express I'm better to stick with Itunes than to use another player and Airfoil. If a want the best possible audio quality it is better to use another player than Itunes and connect my macbook directly to the DAC. With my Dacmagic probably using the macbook USB port with a hiface converter to the coax In of my DAC instead of the optical out. That make a lot of sense but if I could achieve the same quality via my wi-fi network that make me a lot more happy. Steve

Do you think that the Airport Express optical output introduce more jitter than the macbook one? In an article from stereophile the airport express seem not to bad about the jitter. Steve

Hi, I am a long time reader of this forum but this is my first post. For now my source setup is Itunes ALAC rip -> Itunes -> Airport Express -> DAC with Ipod Touch remote. This is a setup that is really convenient and a pleasure to use. I read a little bit about other players like Amarra, Pure Music, Ayrewave and Audirvana. Is these players really better than Itunes? I have difficulties thinking that a computer player can sound better than another one with the same settings in the audio midi setup. Of course the auto audio Midi settings is a good thing and If they can play FLAC is a good thing too but for this we miss the others advantage of Itunes: Airport Express and Remote. Ok there some other 3rd party software but the complete setup is not as simple as the Itunes setup. And a big plus, Itunes is Free. So these software must have a really better audio to worth their price. I just don't understand how can an audio player can sound better than and other if we only want to send bit perfect data to the DAC. And from what I know Itunes can do that. Steve