Great site you've got going here, been reading for a while and this is my 1st post.
A little background: My initial foray into PC audio was ~8 yrs ago when I got a Dell desktop packaged with a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach sound card and some ADS speakers (powered 2.1 system). I didn't really buy the PC for music but was astounded by how good it sounded with lossless music compared with my ~23 year old 2 ch hifi system. This past year I've been upgrading my 2 ch hifi and currently have some Dali Helicon speakers with Parasound amps. In Dec I got a Benchmark DAC Pre and have been feeding it with the digital out from my 20+ yr old Mission CD player (I'm using the DAC as the pre-amp). The sound with this setup is excellent to my ears and a huge upgrade over my previous systems. I'm about to get a Mac mini to use as a "server" and plan to try the different outputs (USB, optical) to the DAC.
Q: What are people's opinions on using a wireless mouse/keyboard vs USB mouse/keyboard?
Maybe I'm splitting hairs but seem to have read that its probably best to keep the USB bus running the least amount of stuff if sending the music data via USB, but I also seem to have read that the wireless/Bluetooth transmission may emit some unwanted high freq energy that may not be optimum. I still don't feel as if I know squat about computer audio but have been having fun reading about a lot of it. I also see people mention running the mini w/out a monitor but I'm not clear yet on how that would work and figure I'll start with the conventional monitor/keyboard/mouse setup. Thanks, any feedback will be much appreciated.
-Mark