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I've not listened to it but I look forward to hearing your thoughts after your demo. I'm considering the Audiolab & music Fidelity as well along with the rega and w4s and maybe the Beresford bushmaster. Quite a spread really!

I've seen the Sonos mod beofre but I'm unsure about it due to some limitations that it may bring into the system

I know what you mean about paying extra for the bling and name of the product but I was lead to believe that a dac that could use 194Khz would be better for music reproduction? I'll have another lok at the DAc you linked to though. Thanks for information.

Had a look at that and it doesn't really forfill what I want. If performance doesn't improve a great deal with price in relation to DACs then why is there such a spread of prices? Surely everyone would be buying £20 ones off ebay. I want a DAC that will play at the high resolution rates because...

Thanks for the comments folks. To be honest I'm thinking about these two DAC's - Nuforce udh-100 & W4S MPre, though I'm leaning more to the Nuforce I think.

There is nothing wrong with the DAC in the SONOS but I just feel there is something missing now from the sound. Maybe I was just used to the sound with my CD player before but there seems to be a little missing in depth and separation. The sound now seems to be quite narrow. Does that make sense?

All Just to update you all. I've taken the leap and gone down the Sonos route straight away. I now have a bridge wired to my router and a connect wired to my amp in the dining room. I'm in the process f burning my CD's with EAC onto a 3TB NAs drive connected to my Sonos connect. Now justing...

Thanks for the replies. I think I'm leaning away from using an airport express. So its back to a USB dac folks and I'll probably get a Sonos bridge etc later. Any other suggestions for DAC's and their characteristics?

Thanks Big boss I'll look at that later. I've just read that using and airport express doesn't alow the transfer of FLAC files so I'm afraid thats out for me. I'm now looking at the following: Audiolab M-DAC Musical Fidelity M1 DAC Wyred 4 Sound DAC1 Quite a spread of prices I know...

Thanks for the reply, thats pretty interesting. So I'm now thinking is it worth it to spend money on a DAC if an £80 airport express hooked up to my amp will do the same thing with added flexibility? Is the Dac in th AE going to be as good as one that costs say £500? I suppose I could look at...

Does that mean you are streaming your music from the laptop via your wi-fi that is then contect to the DAC? Wouldn't that take up alot of bandwidth of your wi-fi if you want to do some down loading etc from the internet? Is there any drop in sound quality doing ti this way?

Basehound Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check them out. Will an apple airport express work with a non a apple laptop?

jjbomber Thanks for the suggestions. I was originally thinking about streamers but decided on the laptop / external hard drive route as its more flexible for me in my current situation. I'll certainly look at your suggestions, I've also looked at Peachtree. Does anyone know / have experience...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Relocated, thank you for the idea but I'd like to keep my exsisting system as is and build of of it, so the active speaker route is not really somthing I'm interested in, the sonos will be a little later in the future as well and I want to keep it fairly basic to...

Hi all I've decided to give computer based music ago using a Acer laptop I have going spare at home. i'll be using EAC to burn my CD's and something like Foobar for play back. Music files will be stored on an external hard drive for portability / flexability.This will be replacing an ageing...