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.

Thanks
Mikel
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Good to know. Can anyone recomend a good DAC that wont break the bank. Also should i be looking at USB or toslink?
"I am using a mac mini with a Benchmark DAC 1"

Shadorne, how do you feed it? I use Airport Express.
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.