Ein Glücksfall für 229$: Pure Vinyl

Primarily a really sophisticated vinyl capture system, the software package also features many facilities that have helped me to substantially improve the performance of my hard drive audio set up*. The difference compared with iTunes is substantial to my ears: I find PV relaxing and musical. Soundstaging is much wider and slightly deeper. Highs sound better to my ears, bass seems lower. Better attack and decay.

Simply put, the iTunes Music Server feature uses iTunes as a music database and user interface, while all audio is rendered and played via Pure Vinyl's "low CPU overhead" audiophile quality 64 bit resolution playback engine. PV features a properly dithered volume control as well as being compatible with Apple Remote, it's fully compatible with 24/192 files and offer high quality upsampling as an option. PV is codec and hardware agnostic.

http://www.channld.com/pure-vinyl.html

*Mac mini, M2Tech 24/192 USB to SPDIF, SMPS powered SCHÖNKLANG ESS Sabre Reference audio DAC prototype with Lundahl LL7903 transformer-output-stages, I2S volume control. SMPS powered SCHÖNKLANG Hypex UCD180HG class D amp prototype.