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RE: Mac as memory player

Abe, hi. I just visited the 'Apple store' today to see the mini up close. The slot load on the mini may be trendy but at what cost to the CD? Perhaps this is a non issue. There's just something about having rollers pressing on optical media. Is there a high quality PCM, SPDIF, or balanced to USB or Firewire interface device? I some video material that would be handy to have on a hard drive or equivalent as well. I've been trying to sort this topic out for a while. I'm still using an Enlightened Audio Design T-1000 feeding a Benchmark DAC1 or cj Premier Nine. A friend in Florida went the mac mini route and wouldn't have it any other way. I'm just trying to get up to some kind of speed. Sorry about the barrage of questions. It appears the mini has 4 USB and 1 Firewire. Do you use Apple lossless compression (sounds like an oxymoron), or some uncompressed format(WAV etc ?)? Thanks for your opinion. I value it.


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