Just curious but what's an optical drive/DAT ? I thought it was digital audio tape?
Those with DATs, how do you view and select your music?
I have my music collection ripped in lossless flac format. My music collection amounts to about 54,000
songs from 4,000 CDs. Music is stored on
USB hard drives. I could pull the music
from my NASs but my Oppo 105d optical drive/DAT much prefers local storage over
network sources.
The Oppo shows the hard drive directory structure on my TV where I can see and select whatever I want to listen to. The Oppo feeds the preamp, which feeds power amp which feeds the speakers. I don’t need or use music server software.
I see preamps with USB ports for iPhones and the like. If I can use my Oppo remote to select and play music using a 65” screen why would I want a 3’ usb cable to iPhone?
Those with DATs, how do you view and select your music?
Is there a smarter way to do this?
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I may have mean DAC? My mistake. Mea Culpa. Oppo have of course put extra effort in the sound of the 105 model. It has two ESS Sabre32 Reference Audio-digital converters, 7.1 outputs and a stereo output. Both use a 32-bit Hyper Stream DAC topology that is said to provide a wider dynamic range and minimize both jitter and distortion. There is both balanced and unbalanced dedicated analog stereo output and digital outputs in the form of RCA and Toslink. |