Thank you I should have known that it could recognize what it was plugged into. I am sorry I know that newbie questions are Bad

If there is a link that will help me I am more than willing to look at it, but I don't really want to read anything more than 5-10 pages.   I do not understand why you would put a dac onto say an ipod which already has a dac in it. Unless you can turn off the dac function on on the ipod. This...