I have a macbook pro with a optical output that I'd like to take advantage of.
Right now, I have a receiver set up with some loud speakers, and an e-mu 0202 being used as a DAC / headphone amp.
What I'd like is to have a DAC/headphone amp all in one. That way I could do something like macbook -> DAC -> receiver as well as macbook -> DAC -> headphone amp -> headphones.
In the future, I would like to replace my receiver with a quality amplifier. I have a Hafler 500 sitting around that I could use. This would mean that I'd need a pre amp as well... That might be stretching it though (DAC/headphone amp/preamp).
Is there anything like this? What kind of cost am I looking at?
As always, Thanks for the help!





