Mac Mini as CD Player / Media Server

Posted under Audiophile,Review - Digital,Technology by Tom on Tuesday 4 August 2009 at 9:12 pm

Mac Mini
I’ve been a PC/Windows user since 1989, way back when you needed two people to lift some of those old IBM desktops, and storage came in 5″ floppy form. Flash forward to 2009, it’s time to add a media server to my audio/video setup, and I decided to go the easy way… which brings me to the new Apple Mac Mini!

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TC Electronics Konnekt 8

Posted under Audiophile,Technology by Tom on Friday 31 July 2009 at 3:51 pm

konnekt 8So I got me a Konnekt 8 to use as a digital S/PDIF converter for my Mac Mini.  From the Mac Mini I use the Konnekt 8’s S/PDIF output to connect to my old Aragon D2A converter.

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