I'll offer my own experience as a point of view although I do NOT have a Mac serving the music (PC). I have beeen streaming Apple Lossless wirelessly to three (3) AEs (one at each stereo), which in turn are feeding the DACs via Optical digital.
My collection is entirely from CDs I've burned to the hard drive, a number of which are HDCD. The relevance is that when these tracks come up the DAC's HDCD indicator is illuminated. IMHO, this suggest the data is fairly pristine and fully reconstructed just as it would have been from my CD transport. In practical terms, the AEs do a great job (to me) with the digits.
Where I've had issues is with interference (microwave oven) and dropped connections. I never could pinpoint or fault the AEs, the router, the wireless access point, etc. My office is in my listening room where I stream about 6-10 hours a day--having this working reliably is very important to me!
This weekend I pulled network cabling to all of the AEs so they're now hardwired to my network switch. Now, there's no interference, dropouts, etc. And I can turn on any/all of the systems for whole house sound that's perfectly in synch!
What Sammie said about using the iPhone or iTouch is true--I have an iPhone with the free "Remote" application installed and it's fantastic! Controls iTunes (play, pause, skip, find), displays the album art, playlists, etc. Very cool but only works w/iTunes which I don't consider a hardship at all!
My collection is entirely from CDs I've burned to the hard drive, a number of which are HDCD. The relevance is that when these tracks come up the DAC's HDCD indicator is illuminated. IMHO, this suggest the data is fairly pristine and fully reconstructed just as it would have been from my CD transport. In practical terms, the AEs do a great job (to me) with the digits.
Where I've had issues is with interference (microwave oven) and dropped connections. I never could pinpoint or fault the AEs, the router, the wireless access point, etc. My office is in my listening room where I stream about 6-10 hours a day--having this working reliably is very important to me!
This weekend I pulled network cabling to all of the AEs so they're now hardwired to my network switch. Now, there's no interference, dropouts, etc. And I can turn on any/all of the systems for whole house sound that's perfectly in synch!
What Sammie said about using the iPhone or iTouch is true--I have an iPhone with the free "Remote" application installed and it's fantastic! Controls iTunes (play, pause, skip, find), displays the album art, playlists, etc. Very cool but only works w/iTunes which I don't consider a hardship at all!