The Mac Mini’s apparent lack of a digital audio out, was one of the first shortcomings I noticed. Since those days, after the Mini’s announcement I’ve read about the M-Audio Transit (apparently will pass digital, but not all multi-channel digital) the M-Audio Sonica (highly recommended, pass’s multi channel audio) and I recently even ran across the XITEL Pro HiFi-Link (which would appear to fall between the M-Audio’s in features). It would seem as if the ‘Transit’ is the preferable way of getting a digital audio stream out of the Mac Mini, but what do current transit owners have to say about the device? The Accelerate Your Mac board has a whole page dedicated to ‘Transit problems’ but that sounds worse than it is, the majority of these problems seem to center around hot swapping devices and apps such as Garage Band.

Balancing the ‘good’ with the bad, I learned that M-Audio actually provides software updates for the transit from time to time. It never really occurred to me that a USB adaptor could benefit from updates, but hey why not. I’d really like to hear from you, if you’ve discovered another potential USB2.0 solution for digital audio out, from the Mini. Choice is always good.

B.Greenway

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