Computer system

Reubent - I have three 1TB drives just in case if something goes wrong during copying and I loose two drives. I can imagine one drive interface (electronics) or firewire itself going bad and copying garbage to another making two disks unusable. I keep two drives at home and one at different location (work) just in case of disaster (fire, theft etc). Each of my Firewire drives was $99.

Computeraudiophile.com has a ton of information about setup options. Chris there is very helpful.

My setup:

1) Drobo multiple hard drive storage system. Automatically creates a mirror copy of files in case one hard drive dies.
2) Additional external 1 TB hard drive that duplicates the music files on the Drobo through an extremely user-friendly program called SuperDuper.
3) Mac Mini that runs iTunes.
4) Altmann DAC connected to the Mini (through the mini earphone jack) via optical cable.
5) I use my iPhone as a remote control. It runs the program "Remote" which uses my home network to access iTunes on the Mini

I rip my CD's through iTunes as lossless (AIFF) files.

Total cost around $3,500, everything brand new. This setup sounds significantly better than my Naim CDS-3 which I sold for $7500.

Turboglo - why don't you use Mac Mini remote?

why don't you use Mac Mini remote?

Hard to see what you are doing if the Mac doesn't have a screen attached (or one that is off when not used).

Mozartrules - How do you use Mac Mini without monitor?