XDA-1, Wadia and Macbook

[hawk14]

I have been considering the purchase of the XDA-1 and the Wadia 170i for some time but I'm hoping someone here can answer a question for me.

I understand the benefits of of connecting my ipod to the Wadia, then the Wadia to a DAC like the XDA-1 for the best possible sound from the Ipod. However, suppose I wanted to access Itunes directly from my macbook instead of the Ipod, would I simply connect the macbook to the XDA-1, or would I be able to connect the macbook to the Wadia and then to the XDA-1?

[x2turbo]

You would need one of these

www.abacus24-7.com/search.aspx?SearchTerm=Toslink+Female+to+Toslink-Mini+Male+Adapter

and a toslink cable long enough to connect the macbook to the XDA

or you could do what I'm going to do and get a new Apple TV and use it to connect the XDA with a glass toslink cable of shorter length which will reduce jitter. You can then stream via wireless from your mac to the Apple TV, assuming you have a wireless network.

Hopefully Apple will start allowing apps on the Apple TV and make Pandora available. That would make me very happy.

[hawk14]

Thanks for the info. So with one of these adapters, would I go direclty to the DAC, or will this allow me to hook up to the Wadia then to the DAC?

[teedub21]

Why can't the USB out of the macbook be used into the USB input on the X-DAC?

That is what I was planning on doing and then using the Pure Music software to get the best sound out of my iTunes.