Playing flac files on my Mac book


I want to use my Mac book as a music server to take advantage of the spdif to optical input on my dac. 

I transfered all my flac files to the mac into a folder. I have tried VLC and Windows Media but the sound quality is very poor and highly distorted sounding.

I have gone to quite a bit of effort and expense to update this Mac but am very dissapointed. 

Where have I gone wrong. 

Thanks for any help you can offer. 
pkvintage

Showing 1 response by gryphongryph

Normally I use Roon, but on my working computer I used to use Amarra, but recently tried Audirvana, and must say I like it better than the newest version of Amarra, Audirvana sounds fine and looks very stylish too.