Pure Music Question


I have a question about how to use Pure Music with a wireless system. I currently have three systems, one using an Airport Express and two using Apple TV's connected to external DAC's. Music resides in a 1 TB hard drive connected via an Apple Airport wireless. Everything is controlled by iTunes running on an iMac using an iPod Touch with the Remote app.

I have downloaded the Pure Music demo and run into a hitch. It launches seamlessly but fails to play through any of the "speakers" I have selected in iTunes. When playing straight through iTunes without PM, no problem. It does play through my iMac speakers and I think sounds like a big improvement, but who listens through internal desktop speakers?

I have been able to highjack the PM stream and direct it to my systems using Airfoil, but short of using a desktop controller on my iPod Touch, nothing else works. PM seems like a great and reasonably priced upgrade, but to make it practical, I need to be able to use my Touch to control iTunes remotely while PM is running. I have spoken with PM's tech support, but no luck.

Any ideas?
bbopman
Just another data point on Pure Music with wireless. I found that music from PM through Airfoil through Airport Express was an improvement over iTunes airtuning to AE. Was a little surprised, pleasantly so, about that. PM made overall improvements, like any upgrade that reduces distortion. Better defined bass, less cuppiness around the midrange, sweet sounds sang more freely and were sweeter, because of fewer rough edges. Spaces sometimes sounded quieter. These were minor improvements, but $130 seems reasonable for any upgrade whose effects are clearly noticeable.
Jayboard, I have found the same to be true. The improvements are not subtle. I was skeptical about a piece of software effecting wireless music reproduction. I thought it was simply a matter of reconstructing the 1 and 0s. Steve Nugent at Empirical Audio (a former Intel chip engineer) told me otherwise. He was right.
Hey All, I have a question about PM. Can I use all these features with Apple TV 1? I know the new Apple TV streams everything...so you're probably out of luck. But Apple TV 1 is basically a mini harddrive. Can I upsample and get the same benifits through my DAC? (the same as I would plugging direct into the MAC? Thanks for your advise.
I don't think so. WiFi is still limited to 16/44.1 whether its an airport express or apple tv....
Got it, thanks Agear. Might have to wait on this until I upgrade to the mini mac.