New Rega DAC

I just purchased this DAC. So far I'm just using it hooked up to my hefty Cayin Cd player, and man it sounds awesome right out of the box. The bass is pretty amazing. I wanted to eventually use it hooked up to my macbook, but have absolutely no experience with the computer as an audio medium, except for itunes and ipods. I understand the mac has a toslink but I don't even know where it is on my computer or what it looks like. What would be a good mini-toslink converter, and what would be a good toslink cable?

Check out the silflex glass mini optical. It is reasonably priced and seems to be well reviewed.

The toslink output is shared with the headphone output, from what I've read. insert the mini toslink end into the headphone jack, and you should be good to go.

I haven't used a mini toslink, so no opinions from me. I use a full sized glass toslink cable - Sonicwave - that I bought on Amazon for about $25 shipped. Excellent cable IMO.

Great DAC BTW. I'm loving mine. As good as the Apollo is, and it's certianly deserving of all the great press it got, the DAC is far better for the same price.

Thanks Joshti. Will do. I also plan to check out some of the USB/SPDIF conversion cables. In the meantime, I'm doing some research on these 5 filter settings, and rediscovering my extensive CD collection, which has been gathering dust since I was bitten by the vinyl bug a few years back.

Interesting that filter #5, the minimum phase apodising filter (for CD playback) seems to be the same type of filter used by the famous Meridian CD player. For more plain english info. see http://hifiduino.blogspot.com/2009/05/wm8741-digital-filters.html (Filter #4 in that paper is actually filter #5 in the Rega DAC).

Does anyone have an issue with the RCA jacks on the Rega Dac in terms of grip? Everything looks to be solid build quality on the Rega DAC but the RCA jacks look to be flimsy and of inferior quality. They don't look like they belong on DAC made by Rega IMO. If I didn't know it was Rega I would have thought it was a much cheaper DAC. Does Rega offer an option to improve those RCA jacks?

Rega DAC rear.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24647118@N05/5755971884/

Thanks