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Now my setup is Apple TV with optical out to my very decent (not ultra high end) AV receiver Denon 2802 - which gives me DA conversion AND bass managment. You also need to buy an HDMI cable but it is beside the point for the hifi purpose. Get Apple TV for $99, and make sure you have an optical cable (avail at Walmart for maybe $10 I bet). I'm also a hifi fan who now has a giant itunes library in the cloud. So, as no one was able to offer a simple answer to my original question, then I thought I'd post this reply up to let other people know just how simple it is.Īpple TV is the right solution for this. It is tons better than trying to match the analogue headphone signal to a HiFi system - something which I discovered sounds really terrible. The sound is not quite as fathful as through my Marantz CD player, but, using lossless audio format in iTunes its pretty close !. The resultant sound quality is exceptionally good and makes it possible to get near CD quality from a MacBook source.
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The only thing you have to do is go into system preferences and tell the MacBook Pro you want your sound to go to the attached USB DAC rather than the internal speakers, and this is really simple to select. There is also an optical input on these USB DACs so I guess they could be connected optically, though I didnt try that method. Both these boxes are really easy to connect and use - its just a digital USB cable from the MacBook Pro to the DAC box and then either phono or XLR analogue out cable from the DAC box to an aux input on your HiFi system. Now, I've auditioned a couple at home with my system (the ones I've tried were a Musical Fidelity M1 DAC and an AudioLab M DAC, but I can see there are lots of others on the market as well).
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When I posted this question up a couple of days ago I'd never heard of a USB DAC. one good way to connect a MacBook Pro to a quality HiFi system and get really good sound quality is to use a USB DAC. I think I've now answered my own question. again any advice on which is the best way to go much appreciated ?Īpologies if this question has been asked lots of times before but I've looked through some previous posts and can't find any answers in simple and straightforward language concentrating on the issue of connecting a MacBook Pro to an analogue phono pre amp input ? I've also read in an archived post here that MBP's have an optical output so maybe that could be used as the input to a DAC ?. I’ve also read some comments about using digital connection – USB DAC’s appear to be an option but I don’t know anything about these or which models (available in the UK) are recommended – anyone got any experience ? I'm guessing one option must be to use the MBP headphone output, either as an analogue or digital source, but I suspect its analogue headphone output will be totally incompatible with the RIAA requirement of the pre amp phono input ? my Hi-fi system is by Musical Fidelity, and the pre amp a Musical fidelity A5cr, this is a very expensive and good quality pre-amp, which has superb audio quality, but, only has analogue RCA phono inputs. My question is, what is the best way to connect a Macbook Pro to a high quality Hi-Fi preamp so I can play iTunes through my high quality Lounge HiFi system ?. Took a while but now I've completed the task I’m really pleased I've done it. I’m a bit of a Hi-Fi enthusiast, so, with my new MacBook Pro I've taken the opportunity of completely reloading my iTunes library to disk in high quality Apple Lossless format. I'm new to Apple support communities having just bought my first Macbook Pro (a 17" 2.5GHz i7 model) and this is my very first iTunes post.