Apple Mac Mini as a music server

Looking to see if anyone has used a mac mini as a music server? If so please respond on how and what your set is. Also are you using a external DAC and how you have the mini hooked into your system.

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Mikel

artez09-24-2011 9:17pm

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mingles Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 795 posts 09-25-2011 at 01:12am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete You'll find lots of Mac Minis if you search the virtual systems.
artez OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15 posts 09-25-2011 at 03:45am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Good to know. Can anyone recomend a good DAC that wont break the bank. Also should i be looking at USB or toslink?
kijanki Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,426 posts 09-25-2011 at 08:59am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete "I am using a mac mini with a Benchmark DAC 1" Shadorne, how do you feed it? I use Airport Express.
raytheprinter Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,234 posts 09-25-2011 at 12:21pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Also search the archives,,lots of great info .
shadorne Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 7,467 posts 09-25-2011 at 01:27pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I feed the DAC1 directly with 24/96 output from the mac mini. This 24/96 output means that my hi-resolution 24/96 files are not downsampled. It also makes no difference to the majority of my lossless collection burned from CD - these are simply upsampled. The DAC1 is asynchronous anyway. The trick is to avoid downsampling which is a lossy process.

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