and can reproduce lossless music with reasonable fidelity. noise margins are good and the noise floor is fantastic (running off batteries). but I agree with his4 that the d/a in the mac is going to be good stuff. just noting that many ipods are not too shabby.

this has been discussed ad-nauseum, with sometimes suspect analysis, in various places. Check:

avsforum

stereophile

this and redwineaudio for an interesting mod.

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