Yes, the quality should be as good as if you had hooked a transport up to the X-dac. You're feeding the same digits into the DAC in both cases.
Is my wireless setup as good as a decent CD Player
I am working out my first decent system and am hunting down the right receiver, but I thought I would ask some of you about the path that I allready started down regardnig my wireless music collection setup.
I have all my music ripped to itunes on my iMac in Lossless format. I have an airport express that the iMac streams music to (which is documented as being lossless transmission). The airport express has optical toslink out which I plug into a Musical Fidelity x-dac v3. From there I go into a junk receiver I am trying to replace and then a pair of totem Sttaf's. Everyting should be enjoyable once I get a good integrated receiver in this chain.
I am wondering if I have missed anything regarding the wireless/xdac setup? I am under the impression that I am getting at least as good "music" out of my wireless/xdac as if I had a comperable single CD Player in its place. My understanding is that the xdac does a good job re-timing things which is a concern of toslink.
I have all my music ripped to itunes on my iMac in Lossless format. I have an airport express that the iMac streams music to (which is documented as being lossless transmission). The airport express has optical toslink out which I plug into a Musical Fidelity x-dac v3. From there I go into a junk receiver I am trying to replace and then a pair of totem Sttaf's. Everyting should be enjoyable once I get a good integrated receiver in this chain.
I am wondering if I have missed anything regarding the wireless/xdac setup? I am under the impression that I am getting at least as good "music" out of my wireless/xdac as if I had a comperable single CD Player in its place. My understanding is that the xdac does a good job re-timing things which is a concern of toslink.