smuggs:i may have my answer £80 notes for this baby but can i only send itunes. Out of the box,yes. Though used with
Airfoil and you can send any audio to an AE.Could i controll from my laptop sitting on my sofa say windows media player-spotify-lastfm etcYes with airfoil... and it looks like it has a usb out to the dac-magic does it have a optical or digy coax
The USB is for connection to printers, if AE is used as a print server.
The AE has an 3.5mm mini-jack output that also doubles as an optical output. So you can use either a standard optical(toslink) cable + 3.5mm/mini toslink to toslink adaptor or a 3.5mm/mini toslink to toslink cable.