Does airport express support ethernet input?
I currently use ethernet to connect my MacBook Pro to an older AppleTV. I use the optical out from the AppleTV as input to my DAC. This allows me to feed output from iTunes to my stereo system. I have to use ethernet because my wireless signal is too weak at the stereo.
This works fine but I have been told the AppleTV only supports 44.1/16 while I can get 96/24 or higher out of my MBP and my DAC. This makes the AppleTV a bottleneck.
It has been suggested that the airport express can accomplish the same thing and can handle any sample rate and word length. However, it is not clear from the web site that the ethernet port can be used as an input. Can it?
I propose to connect the MBP via ethernet to the airport express and use the optical output from the airport express as input to my DAC.
Before you bring it up, I cannot use the optical out on the MBP because I already use that output to feed a small analog desktop system.