something lost in the translation. i never mentioned about a dac in the g5. imo, there is no dac that is worth anything that resides in a computer. jax2, i think you are confused on what a wap device is. it is a device outside of the computer. you go over and over about the crappy g5 wireless card. great, don't use it. i am saying don't use it, use a wap device to create a wireless network in your house. very simple to do. ignore the apple card. ignore the wireless functionality of the g5 tower. create a little network using a 5 port hub and a wap and you can connect all the wireless devices to this network. you can also use a wireless router. there are many different choices. just get over the g5 wireless option.
you missed my point about what the AE, squeezebox, and transporter do. they all receive wired or wireless signals from a transmitting source of some sort. they all have network capabilities that resend data packets if any packet gets corrupted. the ae and squeezebox devices do the same functionality, the transporter adds a dac to the picture. you can't say that the dac in your $2000 transporter sounds the same as a $10k esoteric dac just because you might use the same chip (the esoteric dacs i looked at don't use the akm chipset). There is a big difference.
you missed my point about what the AE, squeezebox, and transporter do. they all receive wired or wireless signals from a transmitting source of some sort. they all have network capabilities that resend data packets if any packet gets corrupted. the ae and squeezebox devices do the same functionality, the transporter adds a dac to the picture. you can't say that the dac in your $2000 transporter sounds the same as a $10k esoteric dac just because you might use the same chip (the esoteric dacs i looked at don't use the akm chipset). There is a big difference.