I have a Roon Nucleus Plus with 4 TB SSD. I have a couple thousand CDs. I figured that ripped CDs would sound better than streaming. When I first got the Nucleus Plus, I ripped a few CDs via dBpoweramp, then transferred them to the SSD. This was a somewhat tedious process, but I was willing to endure it, at first. However, a phenomenon occurred that stopped me in my tracks from continuing ripping. And that phenomenon was, I found that I enjoyed the sound of streaming my music via Tidal so much, I quickly lost my motivation for ripping CDs any further. Happy listening.
ripping/streaming?
I never much cared for making copies of music, and have not done so since the early '80's with analog cassette tapes.
I recently got a good deal on a Roon Nucleus Plus Rev B with a 1 TB SSD. I am hoping that my fellow Audiogoner's can advise me on making the most of it
. The rest of pertinent system is Verizon fiber optical into a Verizon modem/router connected to an old laptop with built in DVD recorder disc drive (not much faith in this transport) both of which are about 40' in a pretty straight line to the 2 channel audio rig, to which I'm hoping to connect to an ethernet switch (?) and then from the switch to the Roon Nucleus Plus Rev B ( and other a/v gear) and then connect the Roon Nucleus to an Oppo UDP 205 as the DAC. I have a little under 2000 CD's that I'd like to load onto the Roon Nucleus's 1 TB SSD. Can my fellow Audiogoners suggest the best simple, value oriented gear, cables, software, setup, etc.to proceed. There has ben some recommendation to first rip the CD's through something like "dBpoweramp" before ripping directly to the Roon Nucleus. I'm not especially looking forward to this project, and I dislike redundancy in gear and procedure, but know that I don't know what's best.
Suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated.