What to do with my Ipod tunes?

First thing you need is a standalone DAC. There are many on the market but you need something that will take a digital signal and convert analog. Then you need a digital iPod dock like the Wadia or similar. Or you can simply buy an airport express and stream your music from your desktop to your stereo and connect the digital output of your airport express to your standalone DAC.

the pure 1-20 is being closed out on amazon for 89 bucks. it has a ok dac and also gives you the option of getting a digital feed to the dac of your choice. from my search this is the best bargain out there. if you search around you will fink wadia, onkyo, luxman, and others that might be better but i liked this inexpensive approach and bought a second one for my garage system.

Please, what are we talking $$ wise. I require a high quality system. Not state of the art, but one level below.