The best I have found for the money is:
Mac Mini Oct. 2009 SSD/8Gigs -> USB cable -> Off-Ramp 5 -> I2S cable -> Wired 4 Sound DAC2
Total cost is around $4499.00
This will beat 99.9% of transports, period. Supports up to 192. Killer SQ:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=112012.0
If you want to spend more, you can do even better, but the W4S above is a giant-killer using I2S.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio
Mac Mini Oct. 2009 SSD/8Gigs -> USB cable -> Off-Ramp 5 -> I2S cable -> Wired 4 Sound DAC2
Total cost is around $4499.00
This will beat 99.9% of transports, period. Supports up to 192. Killer SQ:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=112012.0
If you want to spend more, you can do even better, but the W4S above is a giant-killer using I2S.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio