Hi,
I have just hooked up an apple airport express to my yamaha A810 receiver to enable me to stream my ripped CDs via iTunes. I have used an audioquest forest optical/mini toslink cable so (I think) the yamaha DACs are doing the conversion. I've ripped my CDs into apple lossless files stored on an external hard drive connected to my MacBook Pro or directly into my AirPort Extreme router. I'm able to perform a few tweaks,notably equalizer settings etc through iTunes but would a seperate dedicated DAC give me an improvement in sound quality than the yamaha receiver?
I have just hooked up an apple airport express to my yamaha A810 receiver to enable me to stream my ripped CDs via iTunes. I have used an audioquest forest optical/mini toslink cable so (I think) the yamaha DACs are doing the conversion. I've ripped my CDs into apple lossless files stored on an external hard drive connected to my MacBook Pro or directly into my AirPort Extreme router. I'm able to perform a few tweaks,notably equalizer settings etc through iTunes but would a seperate dedicated DAC give me an improvement in sound quality than the yamaha receiver?