#USING A MAC MINI AS A SERVER PC#

In addition to the Minis IвЂ™ve two desk tops and an Ipad. So IвЂ™ve been with Apple since around 2008. ItвЂ™s clear to me the cables and speakers have a big impact, the amps I might fail a listening test. For digital I use MC 501 monos for amps and MIT cables, for analog VPI, Atma-sphere amps and Audioquest cables.

I like to believe that from the dac on what you spend is worth the added cost. I currently use the Esoteric D-07x as my dac. If this is not true IвЂ™d like to understand what happens to degrade the signal. If something like that is вЂњmaking it betterвЂќ I think that is a different issue.

#USING A MAC MINI AS A SERVER PC#

Before going to PC audio I was big into dCS and upsamplng.

If this is true and the original source is not degraded then what would be better by another alternative. In the digital phase the objective is to acquire the best source you can and then not allow it to degrade on the way to the analog stage. What I thot I learned when I started this is that there are two basic stages, the digital and the analog. I started with a Mac Mini and the two I now use are vintage 2011 & 2014. I donвЂ™t stream, I acquire music in a few ways and keep it on a hard drive. IвЂ™m a bit out of touch on PC audio, IвЂ™ve hardly changed much in the 10+ years IвЂ™ve been in it.

Using a mac mini as a server