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Mac Mini & Outboard DAC

I'm trying desperately to simplify the basic home system. Seems to me, a mac mini, and decent outboard dac would do the job. I've built my own speakers and have a bel canto S300 dual mono amp for power. I can get internet radio streams, which are superior to my am/fm reception. I can move all my apple lossless files to the hardrive, and with a Miglia TVMax+ I can rig it as a DVR/DVD player. Surely I'm missing something. I'd be much obliged if someone can tell me where this will fail before I give it a shot.
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vegasears
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I use my Mac Mini the following ways: Digital music playback with iTunes and remote w/frontrow software. I record vinyl. I also record DVD-A, DVD-V & SACD output from my Esoteric DV-50. I use iTunes for internet radio. I have an AirPort Express connected to my HT Pioneer Elite Receiver's internal DAC down stairs in the den and play music that way too. I do not use the Mac Mini's internal hard drive for music storage, I use a 750 Gb portable hard drive. Great little device.

Good Luck
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shadorne
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Restock,

I used DisplayConfigX which worked brilliantly with my Sharp HDTV (supports up to full 1080P which is 1920 x 1080 pixels). I was only to get the video to output a 720p resolution that the TV recognized as 720p. I did not manage to get 1080p to work, as I think it was too much for the meagre G4 Mac Mini video card to handle.

Of course I immediately sent some money to Harald Schweder for writing this great little program that allows you to construct your own screen resolutions and import them into the Mac System Preferences =>Displays control panel
restock
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Shadorne, thanks for the tip - I will check out DisplayConfigX.
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