Neighbor wants to keep the budget down but I don't want to stick him with the £5 DAC in his Airport Expresses if I can really make his sound better with £100 (or less) DACs.   He has music delivered to three different stations via ethernet, though for at least one, I may just stick with the...

While I've asked some questions in the Computer Audio forum, I thought I might get interesting insight in here about high end solutions to distribute music and even video around the house.  We're about to redo a large maisonette in London and want to consider the possibilities before we begin...

We are getting ready to redo all the wiring in a flat in London before moving in and are considering different architectural models for distributing shared audio and video, Internet and satellite television (or IP provided TV) around the house.   We'd like to have it setup for a mixture or...

I am really tempted to get some cans since I started reading about them on this site.   My problem is that I am the happy owner of a Meridian Explorer, and while it is wonderful as a dedicated DAC, I'd also be running my headphones off of this amp, and I don't know what headphones would or...

Hi   I am currently using a headless 2010 Mac Mini running Snow Lion to play music.   Mac Mini > Bit Perfect > USB Meridian Explorer > Rega Brio-R > Bookshelf Speakers   I really only run BitPerfect and iTunes on the Mac, but it does seem a little sluggish.   Anyway, I am...

Hooked up my USB DAC today and was surprised to find the iTunes volume control (and the computer volume control) still working. Assumed they would be bypassed as I think of them as preamplifier functions. Couldn't find a way to disable them. So what settings do I need to consider? Mac Mini...

While I need to upgrade my speakers from the current BW 685s, my Rega Brio-R is good, and almost all my files are CDs ripped into Apple Lossless.  So really the big weak link in the chain would seem to be from the Airport Express, served by AirPlay, via analog to amplifier as a stopgap.   As...

Things seem to move so fast in the DAC world, and from what I can gather, unlike with more mature technologies, like speakers for example, in the world of DACs, time really seems to march on fairly rapidly. Already we are seeing new technology in 2013 from Meridian and Arcam, no doubt with more...