Who has Luv for the Lyngdorf 2170 and is thinking about the 3400.

Just got confirmation that my 2170 will ship from Denmark on Monday. That puts it in my hands maybe late next week. Waiting sucks! Will be out of town next weekend which also sucks. 

corelli
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I wish I loved computer based audio but for multiple reasons I don’t. I like my CD’s. Just received a box set of 60 Vivarte CD’s and lovin’ it! All this for $1.50 a CD. It’s a great time to load up. But I know in time I will need to get on board. (see oppo thread)

So here’s what I’m thinking. I love the ability the 2170 has to high pass my Double Impacts. Possibly cleaner sound with less of a demand on both the speakers and the 2170’s amp while affording a clean transition to my duel subs (all set up as suggested by Lyngdorf). To spin my discs I am looking at a transport. I would probably go with the base 2170. (Wish Lyngdorf/dealers would facilitate allowing the end user to add boards.)

With the standard digital inputs on the 2170, what type of connection would you guys suggest? Do you think a Cambridge cxc transport would significantly limit the potential of the 2170?

Corelli,
You do know that you could rip all of your CDs into JRiver Media Center running on your PC .You can rip them in .wav format which would be Bitperfect. You get a Fantastic interface ,a Digital EQ, awesome graphics for your album, songs , etc to display on a TV., and you can send it out to the 2170 for the Digital to Analog Conversion, all the while using the "Awesome" RoomPerfect to high pass to your speakers and adjust to your room, giving you the "Best" sound you can get.

grey9hound, I do appreciate your words of encouragement.  I recognize their are advantages as you have noted.  I guess in the end I favor a simple and reliable approach that uses equipment with a very high performance/price ratio.  Hence, my interest in the 2170.  An elegant piece of gear to be sure.

The thought of ripping all those CD's--wished it excited me.  And then there were all those pictures of my Italy trip that were lost due to a computer mishap.  Arrrrrrrrgh!

So for right now I'm a happy dinosaur with my shiny discs. I can carefully hold them.  They are very tangible.

 But things may well change in time.

Its called backblaze.
Its $5 per month.Well worth it .
I have over 20k songs 90% are in .wav format . JRiver will even upsample to DSD on playback,if the 2170 will take it .
The initial ripping is the hardest part .They mostly pretty much tag themselves about 90 plus percent of mine didas long as you are connected to the internet . .Once this is all done you have so much more at your fingertips. Sorting , making playlists giving them a rating from 1-5 stars , Categories or Genres,The Smartlists , Car Radio type of buttons that you can set. .ETC It does take a little time to learn but , no streaming issues..etc.You can go wired or wireless.
The system with automatically categorize most by Genre ,Artist and Album.Once it is done , you can do some creative things.
I was like you until I finally bit the bullet .It took me about 2 weeks every evening and weekend to get mine all labeled Album covered and tagged (it finds most all of this automatically 90 % of the time ) .Plus with your PC hooked up to your TV you now have a Media Server , Internet Browser .etc Youtube and all the like .
I encourage everyone to do this . I have helped several people that live in my area get started... even one who was pretty computer illiterate . Now after about 6 months of use , they all say that they cannot live without it and are glad they took the time to do it. :).It is well worth the Time ,Effort , Pain and Suffering .
Sorry, I will now shut up about it.

" Sorry, I will now shut up about it. "

Please don't grey9hound!  I appreciate your encouragement.  You have inspired me to educate myself on what's out there.  So as to not get off topic, I think this would be a nice topic for a new thread.