You want to put together a "computer music" server? There are lots of ways to do it at lots of different cost levels. Today, I'm going to set up a simple high-resolution music server based on a Mac Mini and a Benchmark DAC2 HGC converter and headphones amplifier (it's really an audiophile standard preamplifier). It will be able to play high-resolution stereo files into an external DAC and then into headphones or speakers.

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