Go to the Empirical Audio website. Lots of great information and Steve Nugent is a great resource that can assist you in what you're trying to do.
Best way from hard drive to DAC?
I'd like to be able to play my ripped (ALAC lossless) CDs on high-quality headphones and speakers using an external DAC and amp. Most likely I'll use a Sonos player with digital audio out as an input source to the DAC.
From what I've read it appears external DACs kind of fell out of favor due to the problems with jitter (apparently integrated CDPs can deal with this much easier). Obviously, for music stored on a hard drive I don't have much choice but an external DAC unless perhaps one built into a sound card (but I'd really prefer to use the Sonos for convenience).
How are you guys dealing with this?
Frank
From what I've read it appears external DACs kind of fell out of favor due to the problems with jitter (apparently integrated CDPs can deal with this much easier). Obviously, for music stored on a hard drive I don't have much choice but an external DAC unless perhaps one built into a sound card (but I'd really prefer to use the Sonos for convenience).
How are you guys dealing with this?
Frank