Hi all,

experimented all weekend. I ended up liking

Hi Luke,

Many thanks. I will investigate the Lintronic solution.

Best,

Rob

Hi Torsten,

Many thanks, I look into the Raspberry Pi solution which is pretty appealing due to its low cost.

Best,

Rob

Hi all,

after using Hifiberry for about 6 weeks now I can report this solution runs very well, sound good (in my case better than the PC link based solution, despite having a high quality DAC connected to the Mac) and is more versatile. Letting visitors stream their music is a piece of cake with this approach. Like it very much. If you search a bit you can source all necessary parts for €100,-. Thanks to the tips here I also managed to sort the V.AUX issues.

regards

Torsten

I would also recommend Virtualbox as an alternative to Parallels. Its most significant advantage is the low prices. However, I don't want to insist on my opinion since I am not so experienced using mac computers. I was loyal to Windows for a certain period of time, and one year ago, I decided to get a mac. I can see that you are good at these kinds of matters, so my question would be, what is a good