[pgastone]

I am in a bit of quandary on what to do- here's the problem:
I travel to europe a lot for work and have a little studio apartment where i set up a small system consisting of unison research cd player, unison research unico SE integrated, and focal micro utopia BE's.
So far so good but i go back and forth so much i am tired of brining CD's back and forth with me- so i was thinking of either ripping all my music to MacAir or even better to an external drive and then just getting a usbdac to play my music off of the computer.
However, the added issue is that the stereo is literally across the room from where i sit and i often need my computer while i listen to music- so now i need a way to connect my computer to the dac/stereo across the room and it is no small distance- and thus i started looking at the arcam solution with the rWave streaming wirelessly across the room to the rDac.
But will it cut it? Is it lossless as they claim?
I do not want to compromise sound quality if i can avoid it.
The other thought is getting an iPod classic (160GB), loading it up in the apple lossless format and then getting a dock that will bypass the internal dec + analogue circuitry and then hooking up to a dac that way (peachtree idac looks like a good all in one alternative).
I would like to keep budget to around $1000 or less for DAC.
Anyone heard the arcam rdac/rwave combination?
And or have any other suggestions of what i should look into?
Thx in advance!!
(Hope i posted to right forum)

[srb]

If you use the iPod in a digital dock, then you have more limited remote control with the included hanheld remote than you would have with music player software on the laptop.
 
If you use a wireless DAC you would have the best control from iTunes or whatever music player you use.  I haven't used the rDAC/rWave, but even though it uses KLEER technology separate from WiFi, some users have had problems with it, and I can't find any information on what resolution it will transmit or if it is lossless.
 
The Audioengine D2 wireless DAC has gotten some good reviews and is 24/96 lossless, but it is an external box and might be a little less convenient than the rWave dongle if you wanted to move with your laptop around the room.  http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Audioengine-D2
 
Steve