I started with a 160gb apple tv and a used flat screen monitor. Total investment was less than $200.00 . You can't beat that price to get into a digital server. If you are happy with all of your music formatted in apple lossless and are on a tight budget, this may be the way to go.
I moved on to a bdp-1 and use dbpower amp to rip my music. It was an enormous jump in sound quality. I bought a used bdp-1 and early apple iPad as a user interface, a 1tb drive and a couple 30gb ssd thumb drives for an investment of about $2000.00 .
You will be able to take advantage of higher resolution source material with the bdp-1. Is that important to you?
If you are pc/mac savy, you could probably put together your own pc/mac based server that would out perform the bdp-1 for less than the cost of a bdp-1.
I moved on to a bdp-1 and use dbpower amp to rip my music. It was an enormous jump in sound quality. I bought a used bdp-1 and early apple iPad as a user interface, a 1tb drive and a couple 30gb ssd thumb drives for an investment of about $2000.00 .
You will be able to take advantage of higher resolution source material with the bdp-1. Is that important to you?
If you are pc/mac savy, you could probably put together your own pc/mac based server that would out perform the bdp-1 for less than the cost of a bdp-1.