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Device that plays the USB you made for your car in your home

Hi, 
      In my car and my truck I can random mode play a 32 gig USB with songs in Apple lossless format, it works great.
      There has got to be a reasonably priced gadget that would output on analog rca connections to my home pre-amp and play the high res USB files. So far I have found a CD/USB player that does what I want except it is MP3 file format only and a DAC that does what I want except it is more than I am willing to pay ($1500).
      Anyone know of a gadget that fills the need?
      Thanks! 
morestereostuff
morestereostuff OP
6 posts
 
All information provided is appreciated.

Amazes me that it is not super easy to find a reasonably priced plug and play solution. There have got to be literally millions of folks that play USB drives in their cars that they could also enjoy in their homes. 

Perhaps MP3 is good enough for the masses so that cuts way down on the potential market. 
auxinput
2,920 posts
 
@mlsstl - got it.  I suppose it comes down to how much of a technical DIY person the OP is (morestereostuff).  The Rasberry Pi solution is definitely not an out-of-the-box plug and play solution.  I'm not sure that he want to spend the hours / days on that project to get it to work.  And before you start saying "it's easy", there is a big gap between what you might find easy and what a general consumer would find easy. lol.
morestereostuff OP
6 posts
 
"I suppose it comes down to how much of a technical DIY person the OP is (morestereostuff)." - I'm (OP) a probably retired electrical engineer and I've played around a bit as a technician/panel builder/circuit board development person post semi retirement and I put together one of the Hagtech Dac kits. 
Main problem is it is sort of like working on cars, yea I can do it but there is no fun in it for me anymore and there are other things I'd like to do. 

Hmm. Haven't checked Hagerman technology and don't even know if Jim is still dabbing with this stuff anymore, he used to be great for kits with paint by the numbers instructions. 
morestereostuff OP
6 posts
 
Anyone interested, this looks like it will do the trick Bluesound Node 2i . Haven't ordered one yet so I can't comment further. 
jbs
92 posts
 
I have a few Sony Blueray players and they all have USB drives and support a wide variety of music files type. They also support 24 bit audio. I use the digital outputs into a DAC but sounds like you want to use the onboard DAC (RCA outputs) which I can't comment on. I will say the quality of the Sony UBP 8000 Mk2 is quite good in terms of build quality, decent power supply etc. I purchase mine recently for $199 on sale. Lower end models will do this as well but generally use a wall wart power supply. Many of these can play SACDs as well. These are not OPPOs but inexpensive and good sounding solutions.  

The Panasonic mentioned upthread is very high quality. 
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