My own system consists of an Apple G5 with CDs burned using lossless into the Slimdevices Transporter via an ATT Gateway Modem to my Audio Aero Capitole using the AES/EBU digital connection.
This sounds really good and much better than streaming audio. However most of my original CDs sound better on the Capitole which means that I have degraded the signal along the way or, I suspect, the Audio Aero was designed to do it's best with an original CD. I still prefer using the Audio Aero DAC over the really audiophile quality DAC in the Transporter as the Audio Aero sounds 'warmer' while the Transporter is much more analytic.
Either way I like the system and I use the Computer generated music set an random song mix.
This sounds really good and much better than streaming audio. However most of my original CDs sound better on the Capitole which means that I have degraded the signal along the way or, I suspect, the Audio Aero was designed to do it's best with an original CD. I still prefer using the Audio Aero DAC over the really audiophile quality DAC in the Transporter as the Audio Aero sounds 'warmer' while the Transporter is much more analytic.
Either way I like the system and I use the Computer generated music set an random song mix.