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USB digital ouput or Toslink from a Mac Mini?
Perfect. Going to go order one myself now.Thanks Gary. 
USB digital ouput or Toslink from a Mac Mini?
Ggil -Where did you pick up that Van den Hul OPTOCOUPLER Mk II???I've been looking for a high-quality glass optical cable terminated with toslink and mini to use between my AirPort Express and Monarchy upsampler..Thanks,Chris 
DAC with AirTunes?
My 2 cents.I use my laptop to stream to my AirPort Express unit and than use the optical output to run a digital signal into a Channel Islands ModWright moded DAC. Than I run the analog signal from the CI DAC to my Marantz 8500 reciever (which I o... 
AAC or AppleLossless
Tom,I've streamed DTS multi-channel files via iTunes to my Airport Express unit, and than from there into my reciever via the toslink output and the reciever has been able to decode and reproduce the sorround sound fine.Perhaps and Airport Express... 
Better sound quality than the I-pod?
I'm a true blue Mac lover...own a few at home, and my buddies have many iPods...That being said, when it came time to buy a MP3 player - the iRiver iHP-120 won hands down for me (for all the reasons bluetrump mentioned above) plus one more..The iR... 
Apple Airport Express Very Cool Product
Thanks,My net take-away from that thread than is pretty much:" It means if you have a good toslink receiver that this is a good system to use, without modification."Sounds like another component converting the toslink to coaxial won't add much.Tha... 
Apple Airport Express Very Cool Product
Hey..I already posted this below, but not sure if folks will read some of the older threads...so here goes again, my appologies if this is bad forum behavior:Hey all,Newbie here..so bear with me.I'm currently sending musci from my older G3 PowerBo... 
DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac
Hey all,Newbie here..so bear with me.I'm currently sending musci from my older G3 PowerBook laptop to the Airport Express unit, and than out of the AX unit via mini-optical to toslink into my HT receiver (Onkyo 502).This sounds pretty good at this...