Has anyone ever seen the iAudioInterface2?  Seems like a good solution for getting pure digital audio out of (and into) a newer iDevice.  http://www.studiosixdigital.com/iaudiointerface2/

Yes, you're right.  Good enough to match CD-quality.  If you have better source audio, you will be losing both in terms of total information and probably an encoding loss as well.   Quote:  

It does.  Here are the details.  http://www.stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/505apple   Quote:  

Anybody looking to "send" digital audio using Airplay with a non-iTunes app should look at Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil (there's a windows version too, if that's the kind of stuff you're interested in).  For example, you could use this to send uncompressed digital audio to an Airport Express that uses...

I received my 4S on launch day.  Never a battery issue compared to the 3GS.  There may be 600 pages of special cases, but 10's of millions of people are using them everyday at this point all over the world.  I love the 4S compared to the 3GS.  I have no scientific information and I'm sure that...

My ultra-portable rig.  I can fit everything that "dangles" nicely into bizarre little case that came with the B&W C5's.  I'll probably be building something a tad less portable and a tad more hi-fi in the near future.

I have a Mac Mini (in another location) and an AIr Port Express.  Toslink from AirPort Express to the Bifrost.  The iPad is just a remote control, though technically it could source to the AIr Port Express, but my library's too big to keep on my iPad.

My first dedicated headphone setup: