I bought a good used PC laptop for $300, stripped it down to just Windows 7 and Chrome, bought jRiver for $50, ripped to flac, set it to play from memory and feed a Wireworld USB cable without using Windows Media Player or Mixer, and go into a Benchmark USB DAC. Amazing what jRiver can do with different media sources, and it sounds much better, to me, than my old Wadia 3200 player going to the Benchmark over 75 ohms. So long CD's.
Music server for a newbie
Hi
I'm considering adding a music server to my current digital+analog rig. I'm absolutely clueless with computers.I'm looking for a unit without dac as i have a dCS vivaldi dac.Budget is up to $6k.I'm not looking to build a computer but a looking for a finished plug and play product and esthetics is also a thing to consider (so no plain metal boxes).
I've heard both on Aurender s10 and Ripnas. Can anyone tell me whether he compared those units or any thoughts or recs on that issue ?
Thanks in advance to all repliers.
I'm considering adding a music server to my current digital+analog rig. I'm absolutely clueless with computers.I'm looking for a unit without dac as i have a dCS vivaldi dac.Budget is up to $6k.I'm not looking to build a computer but a looking for a finished plug and play product and esthetics is also a thing to consider (so no plain metal boxes).
I've heard both on Aurender s10 and Ripnas. Can anyone tell me whether he compared those units or any thoughts or recs on that issue ?
Thanks in advance to all repliers.