vinyl guy needs advice on digital

[sean19]

Hi I'm a long time vinyl lover That needs advice on going digital I'm tired of cleaning my albums and all the space they take up I'm looking for a good digital source should I go with a good CD player like a Marantz CD 5004 Or should I go for a high resolution player And then I can download high-resolution audio offline

 

[jplesset]

Suggestion: Go for a music server. Rip your favorite vinyls to it, rip CD to it. Download your hi-res stuff to it. Terabyte drives now run about $65. Take an old PC, install Linux, MPD, Ecasound, all free software and enjoy.

Don't have a spare PC? I just replaced my PC server with an Orange Pi Plus $35. Feeds the same USB sound card, and is totaly silent.

 

[tomchr]

+1 for the digital source.

Personally, I use an old laptop with an external sound card (Saffire PRO24).

Tom

 

[jplesset]

I was using an old laptop, too, before the desktop PC. How old? Pentium III old. Worked just fine, though the broken screen was hard to read.

 

[georgehifi]

Seeing you stated your a vinyl lover, get a cd player and ruin the 110db channel separation to mimic vinyls 30db at 1khz and 10-15db at lows and highs.

I did it simply by bleeding the left and right outputs of the cdp together with a resistor to give me 30db across the whole range and the vinyl lovers thought it was great. Added body to the mids and bass on those 60 70's cd's
Better if you can make a more complex network to mimic the vinyl separation curve. EG: below red and blue trace

Cheers George

 

[abraxalito]

Get yourself a multibit DAC, don't worry too much about the source (PC, DVD player, single board ARM) - http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digi...-check-its-design-mod-not-play-music-not.html

 

[Tromperie]

Try Daphile; it rips, gets album art from the web, plays Spotify, has multi-room capability, has internet radio, and alarms. I think I'm missing something so have a look. You just need an old PC that can't do nearly anything else.