WHAT ABOUT CLOCKS?

This to me is funny. Someone asks about a clock and ends up buying an antiquated devise. I mean, everyone most know that the cd player is dying fast. I am amazed. If my info is correct the k-01 lists for $22000.00. I bought a silent music server(built to the best available) a dcs debussy dac for $11500.00. Including all softwear. Added the paganini master clock and I am below $18000.00. Let see $22000 for an old out of date technology or $18000 for the latest state of the art tech using usb. I am sure that K-01 sounds great. I will bet my setup sounds at a minimum, as good, but most likely, better. Completely upgradable, with at your finger tips ease and organization. Rip once and put it away for ever or sell or trade. Back it all up on a memory stick. No sweat. I love vinyl. Will never give it up. But, cd players are gone the same way the digital casette tape players went. Extinct. Proof, they are putting them in cars for free.

Koegz, I agree, music servers are the future. I think they will also eventually replace Blue Ray disc players and DVD players as well. I have only had an opportunity to listen to a high end music server once, and it was a casual listening session. I wonder how it would compare to a high end SACD player like the K-01? It would be an interesting comparison. I've asked my audio dealer about servers a few times but don't really get a concrete reponse. I went to another well known high end dealer who had a server up and runing, but all I got was, "yes, we have it, here it is, use this remote control to acsess the music selection," and that was it; I received only a very short explanation on how to get the music online, and no explanation on how to rip cd's/sacd's or how it sounds compared to the best cd players. My questions were answered, but not well. I didn't walk away with a feeling like I had to have one of these devices. It is a completely foreign way to obtain and store music for me. I was curious, and the salesman could have sold me, but he didn't even come close to making a sale. I believe for many of us who have purchased records, cd's, sacd's at the store and online for decades, changing to a server is a major adjustment in mind set. I won't get into servers until my audio dealer responds enthusiastically to my questions and shows me a set up that is easy to use and appealing and sounds great. Also, maybe the fact that it looks like a computer rather than a beautifuly designed high end audio device has a negative subconscious influence on some of us 'older' audiophiles.

I am sure you have used a computer before. You do not need a stereo shop to help you. I am NOT computer savy. Yet I have done it. It blows cd players away. Depending on your budget there are many different routs you can take. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/ is a great place to start. This is where I bought. http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std/sku=fanless_music_server.html I will say each time I learn/figure something out, I feel fantastic. As far as movies go, already there. There is nothing like it. I often compare the best sounding vinyl I have to it's digital version. The comparrisns have become very hard to impossible to tell which is better. Why waist your money? The future is here! I do not know what you consider older, I will be 55 in june. It has been an exciting journey to this point. There really is something to these computers!

Koegz, What site(s) do you use to down load music? Is it uncompressed? What is the cost? How long does it take?

I ripped all the cd's I had owned. I buy new and used cd's from amazon and a local store "tunes" and rip them(place in computer memory). I down load from HD tracks. There are few sites with uncompressed rock music for down load. But a ton of classical and Jazz. Although I got an email from Hd tracks that something big was coming. I like owning the cd and J Rivers media center, which is the music player(organizer,library) I use, has a built in up scaler. I use flac and windows 7 professional. All I can say is down loaded and ripped cd's sound GREAT. I recently got into some blues. Keb Mo sounds fantastic ripped from cd. Obviously the better the recording the better the sound. To me it is a no brainer. I now convert my flac to mps through jrivers on to a memory stick and take it with me in the car. It is easy once you learn how. It may sound complicated but it is not. Just a different way of looking at it.