XM, DAC Question

I am assumimg you are using the SA10103 Home Kit? It does NOT have a digital output. Unless XM made a different dock kit that included a digital output, you'll have to use the DAC that is built into the unit. Yes, the unit does the digital to analog conversion from within. My Sirius unit is the same way.

Thanks Mofimadness. Now, I am able to pull up XM on my laptop and listen. Would that output from my laptop also be analog? Maybe more than one way to skin a cat here.

Maybe a option,I use a Hughes HD-HTL receiver it has both a coax-rca and a toslink digital out. The Hughes connects to my Monarchy dac that I use for the XM feed provided by direct tv. I purchased the receiver on ebay for 50 bucks,works great and the best part is the receiver has a data window that supplies program info.