DAC Help

[Fishoz]

OK...decided I may want to hook up an Ipad to the stereo for reasonable $'s (if possible).

Completely clueless on how to go about this. I know someone here can steer me into reasonable equipment and tell me how to go about this.

I'm of the mind that digital is digital - numbers don't vary and whatever is read is transmitted. Is the DAC itself enhancing the analog output?

 

[Lazarus Short]

Even cheap, cheap CDP's do an OK job with ones and zeroes, Stereophile said so. It's in the analog section that mediocrity (usually) and excellence (sometimes) lie.

 

[fitz43]

OK...decided I may want to hook up an Ipad to the stereo for reasonable $'s (if possible).

Get a 3.5mm male to RCA Male cord. Plug it in to a high level input on the Pre/Receiver.

 

[Fishoz]

Get a 3.5mm male to RCA Male cord. Plug it in to a high level input on the Pre/Receiver.

That's it????

No need for an external DAC?

 

[Lazarus Short]

​Is the output digital or analog? All else follows...

 

[Fishoz]

Laz, I assume output from an I Pad is digital.....?

 

[MarkWComer]

​Is the output digital or analog? All else follows...

Laz, I assume output from an I Pad is digital.....?

NO! If you can plug headphones into it, it's analog. If the output was digital you wouldn't hear much other than noise (and it would probably be a SPDIF connector).

 

[laatsch55]

Amen.. been listening to the kids i-pod for years pm the k-'s

 

[Fishoz]

Son of a bitch - that easy eh????

Well then...welcome to Spotify Dave!!

 

[BMWR75]

You can get a digital signal out of the iPad via the connector used for charging/syncing the iPad. This digital signal can then be sent to an external DAC. Exactly how to do this is dependent on what model/generation iPad you have.

 

[Fishoz]

So...one of these would do the job unless I want to enhance the analog with an external DAC...?

 

[fitz43]

So...one of these would do the job unless I want to enhance the analog with an external DAC...?

yep