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Best way from hard drive to DAC?

I'd like to be able to play my ripped (ALAC lossless) CDs on high-quality headphones and speakers using an external DAC and amp. Most likely I'll use a Sonos player with digital audio out as an input source to the DAC.

From what I've read it appears external DACs kind of fell out of favor due to the problems with jitter (apparently integrated CDPs can deal with this much easier). Obviously, for music stored on a hard drive I don't have much choice but an external DAC unless perhaps one built into a sound card (but I'd really prefer to use the Sonos for convenience).

How are you guys dealing with this?

Frank
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kublakhan
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i've been looking into the benchmark dac with volume pot.

However, here is a great source of exactly the kind of info you're looking for:

http://www.wavelengthaudio.com/usbdac.html

This link for wavelength audio tells you all you need to know including how to set up your computer as a transport and using a palm pilot as a remote control!

I think that the end of transports may be near...at least in my system the end has come already
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