I'd thinking of buying one - hard to find one with the features I want, and none of the gimmicks. This Korg MR2000 is the closest I've yet found to what I want
Studio Recorder | DSD | Mastering | Korg MR-2000S
More storage capacity would be nice though.
Studio Recorder | DSD | Mastering | Korg MR-2000S
More storage capacity would be nice though.
Logitech Squeezbox Duet works for me pretty well. It has pit-perfect SPDIF, i2s that allows back-clocking and it's price is not that high.
I don't see much point in a HDD source. Mechanical, noisy, bulky, power hungry.
A solid state drive, that's a different matter. I can get all my MP3s on a single (micro) SD card. Which is precisely what I've got in my car stereo. I expect developments to keep pace with and outstrip my capacity to buy CDs. If I could get everything on a single card, uncompressed, that'd be something, but it's probably not far down the road. Just so long as I can afford it.
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A solid state drive, that's a different matter. I can get all my MP3s on a single (micro) SD card. Which is precisely what I've got in my car stereo. I expect developments to keep pace with and outstrip my capacity to buy CDs. If I could get everything on a single card, uncompressed, that'd be something, but it's probably not far down the road. Just so long as I can afford it.
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Who cares about cult following ? It will be a choice you will never regret and you'll look back later thinking how much time you wasted before you had a mac 😉
I had a Touch on preorder and got it last month.I use a Drobo with it,connected directly,so no need to have a computer on to listen to music.As for sound quaity,I find the Touch superior feeding my Audio Note dac than either my Arcam or Marantz CD94,and of course hi rez files sound far better still.So personally,I'd certainly call the Touch an Audiophile device.I won't be going back to using cd's.
thats interesting, Ive never heard of them running Windows. Im not sure why everyone follows apples lead with most things, but no mac mini look alikes out there. A friend uses one for his multimedia pc and it seems to serve him well.
PC audio may be better than you think. the point is, all my music is now digital, I would have to burn a cd which is dumb. I have a small wall of cds that now resides in my HDD. What I dont like is having to use a PC to listen to those tracks.
I recently compared an Opus dac with usb and another one with spdi via squeezebox. We ccould not hear any difference and its a pretty good system.
PC noise is overstated IME.
Agreed,that's why I bought the Touch.Uses the Drobo plugged in directly,no pc needed,once the music is stored.
The Squeezebox Touch supports this as well now. But one or even 2 or 3 hard discs on a usb port is not really ideal I think. I want it to be scalable. So I'm thinking of building my own NAS with a silentpc and FREENAS. Not just for my audio which is 611GB or so at the moment. But also for HD video content in the not too distant future (in my case). I'm sure through virtualization..several NAS servers could be seen as a single drive. (Haven't done a lot of research yet)
For audio you could even use the WD mini media player (Which I got just for playing around with and for holidays.) Connected a seperate 500GB external 2.5" hard drive which does not use an external psu....and as rdf says...ta-da! Works like a charm and will set you back only around 150 US or so.
Yes but the touch still requires a PC to run SBS. The idea behind this thread is no server.
mini optical in conjunction with I/O ports.
Best thou is Firewire to a really good DAC. Or USB.
dave
One problem I heard about the Squeezebox Touch is that it requires permanent Internet access to work, even if you only want to play music from an attached USB HDD. It does have a built-in mini server of sorts, but things can really get quite slow. Don't know if they improved this by now, maybe someone who owns a Touch can comment.
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