bhunter
The Spherical Cow
Thanks! As far as controlling volume... It is always suggested and highly recommend that when you hook up the DAC to put the volume at max in your computer then control it at your stereo. What you can do is get the IR control apple offers, it looks like an iPod or if you have an iDevice just get the remote app to control iTunes. But it's better to just control the volume at your stereo and keep it high on your computer. By the way... What music player do you use? I highly recommend Audivarna +... It work along with iTunes or on its own. You can get a 15 day trial, it's usually $75 but they have it on sale for $49 till January 5... You should check it out for your Mac.
I know that it's recommended to control volume with the preamp/amp; however, I can't do that on this system because it is not easily accessible. I use VLC on the OS X machines and Foobar2000 on windows.