American made USB DAC's

Your Mac Mini has FireWire, so you could use the Apogee Mini-DAC. Used price is around $800.

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Find a used or refurb'd iRoc Ultra Fi... very nice and works well with a variety of system types...

jmo...

:) listening,

Ed

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Thank you everyone for all your help and suggestions. I will research them all.

Be careful dealing with Ultra Fi. I got one of their USB DACs on demo and the owner Larry Moore refused to return it for a refund as agreed, I tried to call and email with no response and was even told by his "brother" when I called that he was in South America for an indefinite amount of time and could not be reached.

Gordon of Wavelength on the other hand is a real great guy, helpful and makes a great and beautiful product. I owned the Cosecant and it sounds great.

A great non American product is the MHDT labs products. I have the Paradisea + and the Constantine DACs and they both offer world class performance at a cheap price.

I second the Wavelenght dac, I have a Brick also and its great, Gordan is a great guy and make the best dacs IMHO. He has a new dac out or soon to be out that cost 900.00 and does 24/96. Greg