Laptop for Auditioning Equipment at Dealer?


I'll be getting a MacBook Pro laptop this summer and would like to take it to audition DACs at stereo dealers. I assume you would need some cable that would let you go out of the laptop in Firewire or USB and into the DAC with Coaxial or Fiberopic. Does anyone know how this might be done? I guess I could take my Airport Express and go out of it with Toslink, but I was hoping to avoid going wireless and using the AE if possible.
bruce_1

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Congratulations on deciding on the new Macbook Pro. It actually comes with an optical digital I/O, which I believe is one of the mini connectors just like in your Airport express.

This does limit your choice of DAC to ones with optical input. Otherwise a USB to S/PDIF coax converter would be ideal as menitoned above. Take a look at

Hagermann USB Converter
Empirical Audio ;)

No association with either company, not even a customer yet. I heard good things about the Hagerman and it would probably be the one I would consider, especially for the price.

Enjoy!