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| cd carousel for hard drive cd archive First, I am always leery of "media center" systems. The quality of your digital music experience is directly related to how good the quality of your ripping and (if used) encoding. Poor ripping = poor sound. EAC is the ne-plus-ultra of ripping, an... | |
| Cars R OK, but what kind of motorcycle do you have cwlondon, you have a triple too? Damn. Thought I was the only one with an odd number of cylinders... I have a Triumph Sprint 900... Kind of old, but kind of fun... | |
| cd carousel for hard drive cd archive No, you really need a CD ROM drive, not an audio CD player--the optical s/pdif output is not the same as the IDE or ATA CD ROM interface. There are carousel CD ROMs, used by libraries and such, but haven't seen them used in this type of application. | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Frank, a lot of us swear by USB audio devices instead of sound cards. I don't have experience with a lot of the "pro" soundcards from the likes of RME and such, but you can minimize some of the jitter effects from reclocking inside a noisy compute... | |
| Simple Digital Music Server - Opinions Please I was thinking about this some more and found this an AppleScript called "Join Together v3.2.1." If you are running iTunes for Windows, this won't work, but if you have a Mac available, this script purports to bridge between iTunes and Quicktime P... | |
| Simple Digital Music Server - Opinions Please Unless you want to do a funky workaround with the groups tag, you have to join the tracks together when you rip. iTunes has a "join tracks together" function that allows this when you rip in iTunes. I think you can do this in EAC if you "rip by ra... | |
| Simple Digital Music Server - Opinions Please Only issue with Linksys is its wireless nature... wireless xmission of 16/44.1 requires some decent throughput, and depending upon walls/other devices in the area, you may have issues. If you can run an ethernet cable, I would.I looked at both the... | |
| squeezebox versus airport express The big problem with AEX and, I think, SB in wireles mode is that it is all dependent on radio environment. I think both use 802.11 or related protocols in the 2.4 GHz band, which is pretty crowded (includes microwave ovens, some cordless phones, ... | |
| Recommendation on hard driver based CD player To get my system set up, I first hooked up a monitor/keyboard/mouse to my Serener. It can hook to those devices, its just that normally I don't have it hooked up. In that configuration, its just like a normal desktop (except size wise). It has a U... | |
| squeezebox versus airport express Steve-If you come across music in other formats, iTunes will probably play it--mp3, wav... iTunes should also play streamed internet radio.As far as the data rate stuff goes, remember that what is on a CD is only 16/44.1. All that stuff about "22 ... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? I've had really bad experiences with consumer drives, but the Buffalo seems to be holding up well. I've actually got another 1TB PowerVault 645N with RAID 5 in my garage as well... That one gives me more faith, but my god it's loud!That said, I fi... | |
| Recommendation on hard driver based CD player Dream... I think its a gross conceptual error to assume that the sound quality coming out of VRS/Olive pre-built gear will be any different than a PC configured properly.I use a Serener EPIA small form factor PC. Its fanless and with a NEC Spinpoi... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Dweller... you only have to do most of it once... The post on how I play the stuff is much different:Turn on stereo.Pick up airpanel.Use library to conveniently select one of 15,000 songs.Double tap.Song plays.While I wasn't actually playing music... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Someday I'm going to have to add pics of my PC based rig...I'm in the Marco-camp, in the sense that I have a PC with a USB audio device (Waveterminal U24 also), which connects to a dCS Purcell, dCS Delius, then onto the preamp. My PC is a little (... | |
| Can a PC match the quality of the best CD players? For those looking for cheap network storage, this looks interesting:http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2484 |