When you get your Mac Mini, be sure to disable (under pref. in iTunes) the sound "candy" such as eq, soundcheck and enhancer.
Under applications-utilities-find "midi" and see that 44.1kHz is checked. Also, be sure that iTunes and the main Mini volume are set at "max", and use you pre-amp/receiver to adjust volume. I have a Mini in my listening room and used iTunes/ALAC for all two channel listening. The mini was connected via a glass toslink to my pre-amp. It sounds very good. After a year or so, I decided I wanted an external DAC, researched a lot, but decided on a Transporter because of the positive feedback concerning its DAC. I have converted all my ALAC files to FLAC, and only use Slimserver. The one feature I really miss from iTunes is the ease of navagating through the georgeos Album art view. With the recent iTunes update, it is now full screen. That said, overall, I prefer Slimserver to iTunes. As another poster mentioned, burn DRM files to a cd, then importing the files will solve your concern. Mark -- yooper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yooper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33836 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
