mineralinsulated
04-15-2008, 12:08 PM
ok, you may have to humor me for a bit. I noticed on the cambridge 640 cd player there is a toslink output. I was informed by a salesman at a local shop that this meant i could plug into the cd player with an optical cable from my macbook pro thus having lovely clear sound????!!!! I would have thought id need an optical in to do that.
You see i'm in the process of upgrading to a Cambridge 740A Amp. Even though most audiophiles frown, i want to use either my macbook pro as the music source, or my ipod (the files are mostly lossless) So the sales bloke said that in addition to the amp, i should get the 640 cd because as well as being a lovely cd player, it had the toslink which would enable me to......
So i just want to know if this is correct!
The other question i had was, would the sound be better from the laptop to stereo via a DAC or go straight in via the optical out?
And in terms of ipod, Apple have a standard dock, does it qualify as a decent DAC?
thanks for any responses!
Anthony
You see i'm in the process of upgrading to a Cambridge 740A Amp. Even though most audiophiles frown, i want to use either my macbook pro as the music source, or my ipod (the files are mostly lossless) So the sales bloke said that in addition to the amp, i should get the 640 cd because as well as being a lovely cd player, it had the toslink which would enable me to......
So i just want to know if this is correct!
The other question i had was, would the sound be better from the laptop to stereo via a DAC or go straight in via the optical out?
And in terms of ipod, Apple have a standard dock, does it qualify as a decent DAC?
thanks for any responses!
Anthony