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Off grid digital music

Building a retirement home on an Island that is boat or barge access only.
We are off grid and generate power using both PV & MH.
We do not have access to internet but do get cell phone coverage.
Have a nice vinyl collection and turntables are no problem but digital I know zero zip.
My CD player is a Audio Research CD-7.5. I know it’s dated but it still provides me listening pleasure.While visiting a friend he used an Aurender N10 with a Berkeley DAC . The pleasure and ease of bringing musical choices forward on a tablet was a game changer for both wife and I.
So the quest begins.
My objective is to still get great SQ so my question are as follows.
1. Great sound quality from a server, looking at Melco, Aurender Innous....
2. Want to get a DAC that won’t be outdated in 12 months. Leaning towards the PS Direct Stream .
3. Since we are off grid does that mean that I won’t have access to all of the data of the albums ?
4. Roon Nucleus I believe that if it has access to all of CD’s and SACD once ripped, it can store all of the data on it’s hard drive. Then how do I control via iPad or Tablet. Need to set up a wifi or blue tooth in the house ?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
My system
rugyboogie
erik_squires
15,937 posts
 
Hi OP!

DAC's in the last 10 years are SUPERB. I wouldn't worry so much about their quality / format as much as getting your new music

Access to a subscription / internet service is an amazing thing. Having Tidal for instance, i have access to ALL of Prince. Amazing.
Will you have that? If so you should look into a streamer. If not. time for a hard disk storage solution with a lot of music on it! :)
dgarretson
2,594 posts
 
Off grid your local Roon core will preserve all metadata and play normally, but needs to periodically connect to the web to verify your license-- even if you are a lifetime member. The Roon community blog suggests that this must occur at least every couple of weeks.
rugyboogie OP
199 posts
 
The island that we are on is remote and roughly 40 minutes away from the mainland. so no internet access what so ever. No school, store, hospital or infrastructure nothing. But of course we pay property tax for what...........

Thanks spatialking, will look into satellite options.
All of the cell towers on the mainland are pointing inland and not towards the ocean. We are lucky to have cell phone service in case of emergency.

Looks like a larger hard disc will be the solution. Therefore will further investigate solutions mentioned above. Have about 2000 CD's and 100 SACD to put on the drive.


dgarretson used to have a SACD-1 which replaced my ML 30.6 & 31.5.Yours look's really tricked out, nice job.
Will contact Roon re the Nucleus  to see if it also has to connect back to the grid. Thanks for this.
erik_squires
15,937 posts
 
Tjhe on bit of bad news is I don't know of any turnkey solutiosn for ripping SACDs.
You can buy DSD tracks online, but I don't know of any way to take a physical SACD and rip it5.
branson4020
9 posts
 
I am also a bit out-of-the way and have satellite internet from Viasat.  It works great for streaming music from TIDAL, PANDORA, etc.
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