Mark Sealey
Level 2
(362 points)
Q: (How) can I use my Airport Extreme to send FLAC files/iTunes to my stereo?
(New to this topic.) Is it possible to use my Airport Extreme Base Station to send FLAC and iTunes music files to my (ParaSound P3/A23) stereo system wirelessly?
If so, how?
(Not interested in iOS devices doing this - just, effectively, in using my 'mid-2011' 2.7 iMac (10.7.3) as a music server
TIA!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Clean machine... no haxies; no Microsoft etc
Gino Cerullo
Level 4
(1,456 points)
Go with the Aux/Line if it is free although it sounds like Parasound has designed the Aux/Phono to accept auxiliary devices in addition to turntables so it might be safe to use it as well.
As for the Express, the USB port is only for attaching printers. The audio output does both analogue and digital optical if you use an optical minijack adapter. That is where you would plug in an DAC.
Like Macintosh computers, the Express audio output jack supports both analogue and digital optical. The audio is output in both formats simultaneously, analogue and digital optical, so it doesn't matter which method you use.
