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Need help with Dedicated music server.

I am really confused with a selection of a dedicated music Server and need some info. I currently use a Toshiba laptop/J River Mediacenter/Benchmark USB DAC. I have ordered a Berkeley Designs Alpha DAC. As you may well know the Berkeley does not support USB at this time. I need a Music Server Solution to The Berkeley Alpha DAC. I have heard that many users prefer the Mac Pro/Almarra server. But with the release of Windows 7/ Wasapi J River Server. Also your hear good things about XXHighend. Please can someone give some Impressions of each of these Music servers?

Thanks in Advance,

Johnny
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larry_s
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Anything that uses S/PDIF will not perform as well as asynchronous USB. With S/PDIF the target end still has to recover the clocking from the data stream. Cabling and termination on the target end will still come into play regardless of how good the clocking is on the source end.

Asynchronous USB DACs aren't cheap, so I can see interest in other solutions.
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