What do I Need in Order to Stream digital content and Store & Play CD's ?
I'm looking to upgrade my system in order to add capability for streaming audio digitally from services such as Tidal, as well as to store & play my cd collection of some 300 cd's. My present system is: Krell 250m mono blocks, Thiel CS 6 speakers, PS Audio Lambda transport, Classe DAC 1,( no digital inputs/outputs for streaming.) Also have a nice analogue rig but not relevant to what I want to change. Neither is cabling. What do I need to replace/add in order to accomplish this?
Hope you get a good response because I'm also looking for a good streamer for Tidal and want to keep the PC or Mac out of the listening room. I am thinking of an Auralic since I don't really need a DAC and will use my Modwright/Marantz player as the DAC source. Worst case is I would need a DAC/Steamer.
True that! I have a friend my age group who is a long time computer nerd and he is impatient with my ineptitude, I'm just trying to catch up enough to communicate with him! Puts like learning a new language of acronyms..
As Dave said, you can stream Tidal from a computer. Also playback CDs as uncompressed files. 300 CDs would take about 150 GBs hard drive space. Do you have a computer and if so what make? I use a MAC mini in my main system and also a Macbook pro for my secondary systems. With a computer using USB you would only need to get a USB to SPDIF converter for your DAC.
I'm right there with you Michael. Thinking of trying Tidal through a current usb DAC via my PC and the terminology used by the experts (ie NAS, Synology or QNAP) is confusing to me.
I think we may need to find a "Streaming for Dummies" book. lol
Thanks for your patience guys. I have not ripped any cd's yet, nor am I streaming any audio other than Pandora-through my Sonos. So, Ok, listen. I am an old guy. I have a splendid old guy system with digital in the form of CD's played via my described PS Audio Lambda transport & Classe DAC. Because I enjoy Pandora, I now want to stream cd quality audio via Tidal (because I understand its the only service with hi fi quality sound). I also want to store my CD's digitally and play them. My question is, what are the best devices and means to accomplish this goal? Thanks to jond,donjr& sbank for your patience with my doddering attempts to communicate my questions!
@donjr If you are asking me I have an Auralic Aries Mini which streams wirelessly from my NAS drive and also streams Tidal. Its connected to my dac with an spdif rca cable. I control it using their remote app Lightning DS on my ipad mini. Very simple and satisfying setup for me and it wasn't expensive in terms of high end audio.
So if you're streaming wirelessly, what device are you using? I would also like to get this straight. So you have your CD's ripped and stored on a NAS. What's connected to your DAC that allows you to stream from the NAS or does the doc allow that wirelessly?
Read the 2part Sonore microRendu review on computeraudiophile site before you do anything. I agree with @jond that ripping your CDs, storing them on a NAS(e.g. Synology or QNAP) and streaming to your DAC is the way to go. Don't let any unfamiliar terminology deter you. It's not that hard!!! It's so much better sounding than most PC or Mac based solutions. Cheers, Spencer
You can simply add a streaming device and I don't understand you saying your dac has no digital inputs? A quick google shows it has 5 inputs you can certainly run an spdif rca cable or toslink from most streaming devices right to your Classe Dac. I did this and ripped my cd's to an external NAS which I stream from wirelessly.
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