Preferred Audio Output, USB or 3.5mm?


What is the preferred 2CH audio out selection from an iMac (or PC) to my preamp, USB or the 3.5mm headphone jack? Either output will run through a separate DAC before the preamp. Mainly listening to iTunes or Pandora.
stevensctt

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I'm using USB from my mac to the DAC. I also tried the headphone jack with a toslink cable to mini rca jack (the mac outputs optical from the headphone jack). Not really much difference. In either case an asynchronous dac will deal with any jitter issues common to both methods. For either method a good quality cable makes a big difference over the cheapo stock stuff.