Hello,
I just bought the price-winning Denon D-M40DAB mini hifi system. It sounds great.
Connecting the lightning output of my iPhone 6 to the USB port on the front of the receiver works fine and I can play FLAC files with the Vox media app. I had thought that it would be possible to connect my mid 2009 MacBook Pro the same way, but that turns out to be quite a challenge. Firstly, it is difficult to find a USB cable with the right plug in both ends (male type A). Reading a bit in the manual they state that it is not possible to connect a computer to the USB input.
The receiver has two optical digital input on the rear. Is there a way to convert the digital stream that comes out of the USB port on the Mac to an optical digital signal that I can feed into one of the optical inputs on the receiver?
I do have an Apogee One for iPad and Mac, so I guess I can take the headphone output from the Apogee and feed into the line-in of the Denon, but then I don't benefit from the DA converter of the Denon.
Another problem I discovered is to read FLAC files off a USB stick. The display on the receiver says "Unsupported". The same stick plays fine on my Onkyo HT-R693 A/V receiver. If I put a USB stick with MP3 files into the Denon it plays fine. I wondered for a while if this could be a problem with copy protection, but HDTracks.com state that there is no such limitation on files you buy from them. And, as said, the FLAC files play fine on the Onkyo.
If anyone has experienced the same problem and maybe even has the solution, I'd be happy to hear about it.
Cheers,
Geir
I just bought the price-winning Denon D-M40DAB mini hifi system. It sounds great.
Connecting the lightning output of my iPhone 6 to the USB port on the front of the receiver works fine and I can play FLAC files with the Vox media app. I had thought that it would be possible to connect my mid 2009 MacBook Pro the same way, but that turns out to be quite a challenge. Firstly, it is difficult to find a USB cable with the right plug in both ends (male type A). Reading a bit in the manual they state that it is not possible to connect a computer to the USB input.
The receiver has two optical digital input on the rear. Is there a way to convert the digital stream that comes out of the USB port on the Mac to an optical digital signal that I can feed into one of the optical inputs on the receiver?
I do have an Apogee One for iPad and Mac, so I guess I can take the headphone output from the Apogee and feed into the line-in of the Denon, but then I don't benefit from the DA converter of the Denon.
Another problem I discovered is to read FLAC files off a USB stick. The display on the receiver says "Unsupported". The same stick plays fine on my Onkyo HT-R693 A/V receiver. If I put a USB stick with MP3 files into the Denon it plays fine. I wondered for a while if this could be a problem with copy protection, but HDTracks.com state that there is no such limitation on files you buy from them. And, as said, the FLAC files play fine on the Onkyo.
If anyone has experienced the same problem and maybe even has the solution, I'd be happy to hear about it.
Cheers,
Geir