iMac to DAC via 3.5 mini-phono jack/RCA IC?


Anyone try this with a high quality IC - if you can call the 3.5 mini-phono jack that. ;-) I'm curious how it compared before investing in another custom IC.
sakahara
do yourself a favor and get a jitter remover device and hook this up wih a good toslink cable with the mini adapter (sold at fry's for $2) from your imac. then use the best coax digital cable you can afford to hook this jitter device to your external dac. i was impressed when i 1st went from the imac into a dac, but there was a huge jump when i inserted the jitter device between the computer and the dac.
The digital output on the Mac 3.5mm mini jack is ONLY via optical - so no way around toslink (unless you go the USB route). If you us a mini to RCA cable it will only carry an analog signal from the mini output.
I did not know it was only optical. Thanks.

No USB DAC for me. Been there, done that. Didn't like it. My current source is iTransport. Looking for more remote freedom, larger screen, w/ iTunes.