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Looking for a component for ripping and playing CD's.

Recently moved to a different state and sold all my audio equipment.  NAD preamp and tuner, Nakamich Dragon, Thorens belt drive turntable with Shure V15VMR, Sony 400 disc SACD player, pair of Hafler DH500's, Krell KMA100's, Definitive BP7000SC's and Polk Audio SDA SRS's.  Sold all my vinyl but kept my collection of approx. 2500 CD's.

New system consists of NAD C538 single CD player, Sangean tuner, McIntosh C-32 preamp, McIntosh MC-2205 amp, Klipsch Forte IV's, a pair of Klipsch RP-1200SW subs and my first ever stand alone DAC, S.M.S.L. SU-1.  I've never streamed before and enjoy Youtube for music and music videos.

My question is does anybody make a hifi component that allows me to rip my CD's and then play them through my DAC?  I really do not want to use a computer to do this.

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

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As long as you are ripping to a FLAC file, a laptop or PC will be fine. If you want to 'roll your own' I'd recommend using an external NAS (Network Attached Storage) from someonelike Synology.

If you want easy, it's hard to beat the Bluesound Vault 2i. It includes a CD drive and a 2TB disk. 2TB will hold over 34,000 songs or 3,000 albums ripped at 96K X 24 bits. The BlueOS software works well and the overall BlueOS 'ecosystem' is reasonably well established. 

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