I bought my first mac. It is a used mac mini (g4, 1.42, 1gb, 10.3 os, aka "original"?) to use to feed a DB audio labs tranquility Dac. The guys recommended a mac mini as a better "transport" over a laptop because of things like the display being away from it.
I just got the Mac and the brand new Dac setup yesterday. From what I heard already, in just the first night, I am very glad I did. As it is setup to immediately import the songs to aiff when the cd is loaded, I think it acts essentially like the ps audio perfectwave transport, but for a lot less. I am not up to speed on all of the details on this discless audio yet, but this is some seriously good stuff going on here! I have a squeezebox duet, and it was sorely lacking compared to my cd player. And it seems like its quite pricey to get it to a high performance class.
I was having a hard time figuring out how to make it more convenient as a remote control. I hear a lot of people want to use a ipod touch or iphone, but I am not willing to spend that kind of money yet. I did find a bluetooth "rocketfish" keyboard at bestbuy for 31 bucks last night. And it makes for a decent remote control, just using the arrow keys to select the songs, or keypad to direct select. Although it does need a monitor this way. But if I treat it as a cd player, then the only thing I think I lack is an eject button. So I need a mouse to click that. I hope I can find a way to setup a key, or key combination to do that... any ideas?
-Tony
