Imac to PS3 to HiFi

[Drummerdave]

Hello all. I had previously posted a query about streaming music from itunes on my imac to my hifi. I was told that it could be done via an Airport Express and that a DAC would improve sound quality. I also have a PS3 and have heard that it could be used instead of the AE. I believe there is some software called Medialink which will make this work. Has anybody tried this successfully? Thanks. D

 

[Drummerdave]

Hey, got it to work, thanks for all your co......oh right......

 

[Alec]

Haha!

Glad you were successful!

 

[Drummerdave]

al7478:
Haha!

Glad you were successful!

Cheers!

The installation was very simple and it works really well. Will probably get a dac to improve the sound eventually.

 

[Drummerdave]

Spoke too soon - installed itunes 10 and a PS3 update and now I'm getting a server error - grrr.

 

[professorhat]

Working okay for me using iTunes 10.1 and latest PS3 3.55 update. Are you using version 2.11 of MediaLink? If so, what issues are you getting?

 

[Drummerdave]

professorhat:
Working okay for me using iTunes 10.1 and latest PS3 3.55 update. Are you using version 2.11 of MediaLink? If so, what issues are you getting?

The connection was dropping out with a DLNA 2104 error message - however just downloaded v 2.11 of Medialink and it seems to be working ok. Cheers.

Btw what do you use for the remote? Just the PS3 controller?

 

[professorhat]

Have to say, I never actually use it these days. I have the official PS3 remote control from when I used to use it as my main Blu-Ray player, but (a) since the PS3 doesn't understand Apple Lossless, I'd need to have found some transcoding software and never really bothered and (b) I have an older Apple TV that I recently bought so this does all I need now.

 

[Drummerdave]

Still getting that server error, not impressed

 

[Drummerdave]

My wonderful daughters got me an Airport Express for crimbo so I'm now listening to itunes streamed from my imac and controlled with my ipad. It's working brilliantly.

Just got to add a Beresford Caiman to upgrade sound quality now.....

 

[Anonymous]

Drummerdave:My wonderful daughters got me an Airport Express for crimbo so I'm now listening to itunes streamed from my imac and controlled with my ipad. It's working brilliantly.

Just got to add a Beresford Caiman to upgrade sound quality now.....
I got one of these for Crimbo too. Superb bit of kit. Just add Spotify Premium.

 

[John Duncan]

igglebert:Just add Spotify Premium.

(and Airfoil)

 

[Drummerdave]

What does Airfoil do that my system isn't already doing John?

 

[chebby]

Drummerdave:What does Airfoil do that my system isn't already doing John?

Enables you to stream any non-iTunes content via Airport Express. (BBC iPlayer radio, Spotify etc.)

 

[Drummerdave]

Thanks.

If/when I get a DAC (Beresford Caiman) what cables do I need to connect it to the AE and my amp?

 

[John Duncan]

A mini-toslink-to-toslink optical cable (or a mini-toslink adapter for a normal optical cable) from AE to DAC, and normal analogue interconnects from DAC to amp.

 

[Drummerdave]

JohnDuncan:A mini-toslink-to-toslink optical cable (or a mini-toslink adapter for a normal optical cable) from AE to DAC, and normal analogue interconnects from DAC to amp.

Many thanks John.

 

[Drummerdave]

Caiman arrived today. Looking forward to a listening sesh tonite.

 

[Drummerdave]

New Caiman DAC sounds great straight out of the box, but only when I had replaced the Kimber Crystal CU ic with a Cambridge Audio Pacific. With the Kimber installed the sound was thin and uninvolving but the much cheaper CA cables opened up the soundstage. In fact, I had initially connected the CA cable from cdp to amp (to do some A/B listening with the streamed music) and the sound quality was much better than I'd been used to with the Kimber. Could be because of the -11 db attenuation on the Kimber?