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I've got an audio source (Apple Airport Express
http/www.apple.com/airportexpress/) that has both digital and
analogue outputs. The sound quality of the analogue output is not that
hot, not bad but you can notice the difference between it and a
reasonable CD player.
I'd like to use the digital out but unfortulately my amplifier doesn't
have a digital input - not many do these days apparently. Stand alone
digital to analogue converters (DACs) are very expensive as they are
generally really high end bits of kit.
What I just thought of doing was getting a cheap second hand CD player
and trying to wire the digital output of the airport into the DAC of
the CD player, so the source would be external instead of the CD
transport. I can cope with basic electronics. The airport output is
optical Toslink but you can get optical -> coax. converters.
Any comments on this plan?
Cheers
Oliver
I've got an audio source (Apple Airport Express
http/www.apple.com/airportexpress/) that has both digital and
analogue outputs. The sound quality of the analogue output is not that
hot, not bad but you can notice the difference between it and a
reasonable CD player.
I'd like to use the digital out but unfortulately my amplifier doesn't
have a digital input - not many do these days apparently. Stand alone
digital to analogue converters (DACs) are very expensive as they are
generally really high end bits of kit.
What I just thought of doing was getting a cheap second hand CD player
and trying to wire the digital output of the airport into the DAC of
the CD player, so the source would be external instead of the CD
transport. I can cope with basic electronics. The airport output is
optical Toslink but you can get optical -> coax. converters.
Any comments on this plan?
Cheers
Oliver