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Servers: Are we there yet?

I was shocked to discover that my brand-new high-end server is entirely dependant on a functional wireless network. If either the Ipad or the wifi are not working, the server is rendered non-functional. I spoke to the dealer and he informed me that all the servers he carries are like that. Huh?!?
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jrun
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I have been lurking this thread and many others for about 4 months.  Without a large budget to work with, but wanting bit perfect server feeds to the dac, I purchased an Auraliti PK100 with power supply here on Audiogon.  I ordered a Trendnet ethernet over power line kit from Amazon, plugged one module in a wall socket in the office and connected that to my router with a cat 5 cable from Blue Jean Cables.  I plugged the other module into a wall socket in my audio room (at the other end of the house) and connected that to my PK100, then connected the PK100 to my dac via toslink, turned everything on, and presto! Using my wife's old ipad I now have a great sounding digital jukebox.  Does it sound as good as my Meridian G08 cd player?  I'm not sure, I have not done any a/b listening, not sure I will because it all sounds damn good.  I am in the process of ripping my cd collection to flac using dbpoweramp.  I agree with the statements that there is still work to be done in computer audio, but having fingertip access to any song/artist on over 1000 cds is crazy cool.   
jrun
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Hello again everyone,

It appears this thread has basically died, but tomcy6 did request that after I had listened to my PK100 setup for awhile to post my impressions.  Well, I am still very happy.  It remains difficult to compare to my Meridian G08 cd player because in order to A/B the two players I either have to listen to  the Meridian on my W4S dac or use the cd player without the W4S dac.  With the dac in the picture, the cd player MIGHT be a tad more resolving.  But I am really splitting hairs here.  As always the software has more to do with sound quality than the hardware.  What I mean by that is great recordings sound great either way I play them and lesser recordings sound, well, less good.  I am happy to have a server and do not see myself going back to a stand alone cd player anytime soon.  That being said, I have no plans to get rid of the Meridian, I just play it much less.  Thanks for reading.

                       jrun
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