Hi Gadut
I have the 550 but have not started to muck around with it. Going to mod the player to include a nos tda 1541 using 12S connection. Too many hobbies n projects in the pipe line. Not to mention having to work also. lol
I have the 550 but have not started to muck around with it. Going to mod the player to include a nos tda 1541 using 12S connection. Too many hobbies n projects in the pipe line. Not to mention having to work also. lol
This is all very amusing.
I run Daphile on an old core 2 Duo with a NAS as data store, controlled by Android Logitech Squeezebox Controller. I use Wake-on-Lan to turn the box on, pick what I want to play and it sounds as good as the expensive CD player I sold off. The music comes from active speakers. I hope the purchaser finds pleasure from my CD player because I don't miss it at all.
I run Daphile on an old core 2 Duo with a NAS as data store, controlled by Android Logitech Squeezebox Controller. I use Wake-on-Lan to turn the box on, pick what I want to play and it sounds as good as the expensive CD player I sold off. The music comes from active speakers. I hope the purchaser finds pleasure from my CD player because I don't miss it at all.
In theory at least it is the best solution. Excellent for audiophiles but not really practical for listening to music.
was at a friends hi end shop today. Yes must admit servers are so much more convenient but after comparing between server n cd of the same recording, there really is a difference especially in terms of soudstage depth n width
Also placement of instruments not as pin point. On vocals at certain frequency seems to sound more in your face with server
Nope, it is not - I wrote about a mirrored server (or NAS box).
Not all time powered but synced to the main server e.g. once a week.
But it really is an overkill if the sources are still on CD.
You are far from disappointing me - it is a pleasure to read about such a setup.
I would still bet that 99% of people who set up a multimedia server to host their music resorts only to that box ...
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Forget CDP and Forget Servers - both will be gone soon...
I wonder if there is really a future for Servers, I suspect their lives will be even shorter than CD, it'self shorter lifetime than Vinyl. Why ? - music Streaming. With internet access we will have access, eventually, to a virtually infinite high resolution juke box. The $ being invested in Servers surely pales into comparison with the $ being invested into streaming services along with the software. That just leaves the DAC for us to worry about.... and explains why the big companies are not jumping too fast onto the Server bandwagon - they are spreading their bets by also looking at Streaming.
I wonder if there is really a future for Servers, I suspect their lives will be even shorter than CD, it'self shorter lifetime than Vinyl. Why ? - music Streaming. With internet access we will have access, eventually, to a virtually infinite high resolution juke box. The $ being invested in Servers surely pales into comparison with the $ being invested into streaming services along with the software. That just leaves the DAC for us to worry about.... and explains why the big companies are not jumping too fast onto the Server bandwagon - they are spreading their bets by also looking at Streaming.
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I agree.... and I find the HDef mastered downloads and a good file server to sound superiour to CD. I just was wondering why. Is it jitter? or ?
THx-RNMarsh
Well a good PC server or PC streamer is essentially the same thing anyway. One pulls its data from the internet and one the hard disk. The streamer will have a hard disk anyway so...
Rsync on a CRON job is certainly an option if your music collection doesn't grow too quickly
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I don't see a need for a hard disc or for the need to use a PC to stream from. It will be much more user-friendly than that. Look at the Apple TV set-top box for example.
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