With my new L.K.S DAC, How to Set up Hi Fi Digitial library , play and streaming


With My New L.K.S. DA004 Dax, and listening to the great advice I was given by Melm  and other in regards to bypassing playing and buying CD’s / SACD’s for the Best digital  SQ for building a new music Library to play directly from the Computer, laptop. I’ve been going over many of the threads here in regards to start building a system, But again there seems to many ways to achieve this new system.  My computer system is Mac/IOS, that’s the platform I’ll be working from, and I would like to run the system from an iPad in the wall next to audio system because my Main computer is located on the other side of the house. If needed, I could run an eithernet cable between the computer and audio system. I did read a thread where it can be done with hi def results at a low cost without losing any SQ, That would be idea. It included a basically a small screen for display, etc, but my thoughts would be still to use the IPad if possible with the new L.KS. DAC. I really appreciate the help, I know this has probably been covered many times in the past, please just direct me to any threads. I havn’t found many though with using the Mac iOS system with the new L.KS DA004, and that’s what I looking for and build from for my new Digitial library,Play and Stream. Thanks so much for all your help and input.
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Wired would be my preference.  You probably will want a renderer, the usual suspects are Bluesound, Bryston, Auralic, Aurender, Lumin, etc. Least expensive quality option would be the Bluesound Node 2i.  If you ultimately would like to improve the sound, go from there, but the Node is a very good digital transport.
I currently use the Bryston BCD 3 which has a bit of a learning curve is several times more costly than the Node but does sound pretty awesome...