How to best add Audiolab M-Dac into system

[pgmacca101]

Hi all, my first post so please bear with me. I have an audiolab m-dac that i want to add into my system which comprises of 7000 tunes in i-tunes stored on a mac mini, a sonos connect amp, 6 sonos play:1's, a marantz 7007 home cinema reciever and bowers and wilkins m60 speakers and sub. I love to listen to music through the sonos and also headphones, i have Audio technicas, denons and beats by dre. I am wanting to get the best sound possible through the kit but am confused as to the best way to connect everything. Any help would be appreciated. Paul

 

[ID.]

It might help if you tell us how you've got all of your equipment set up at the moment.

I guess the best way to set it up is to feed the digital signal from your computer to the MDAC and then have the MDAC give an analogue signal to your AMP. Seeing as it only has one set of analogue outputs you'll have to choose whether to connect it to your Marantz or the Connect Amp. My choice would be the Marantz, but try them both out and see which you prefer.

For the Sonos kit, I think only the Sonos Connect (not the Connect Amp) has digital outputs, so you won't be able to use your Sonos kit to stream to the DAC, so you will need to use a wired connection to your computer (USB or optical are most common).

 

[pgmacca101]

What i'm wanting is for tunes to go from mac mini to sonos to audiolab then to play1's. Dont know if that is possible. If i have to purchase a new amp and speakers for this i will.