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RE: Mac with FW dac + external master clock. Anyone?

If I were making a wish list for a DAC it would be that there was a Firewire version of the Cambridge Audio DACMagic, which is terrific and over the moon great considering its price. The reason I mention this is that optical is not a viable way to playback high res files with the Mac Mini and the DACMagic. I tried the optical route this weekend and to my ears the sound was simply crappy and not even close to high end sound. The muaic was bright, light in the bass and the timing was off. This was really a great disappointment and I caution those of you with a Mac Mini to stay clear of optical unless for some reason your DAC does a much better job with the toslink input than the DACMagic, which has very good jitter measurements that input as reported by John Atkinson in Stereophiie.

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