Aurender for high quality streamers. They have them at all price points. The Auralic Aries G2 gets good reviews, I owned one, Aurender sound better to me.
Ready For Digital Source...Computer?
I have speakers and amplification all figured out, now I need a source. No vinyl and not concerned with CD's at this point.
Only steaming online. No Roon either, been there, done that.
Honestly, (because I need a new computer anyway) I would really like to use a computer to play Spotify (hopefully CD-quality soon), Tidal, Qobuz, etc. but most say a computer is too "Noisy" to use for this purpose. Although, I have heard there are ways around this.
Rather than having to purchase a dedicated music server, does anyone know how to set up a computer as a high-quality music server? I can't really seem to find anything online.
Thanks
Only steaming online. No Roon either, been there, done that.
Honestly, (because I need a new computer anyway) I would really like to use a computer to play Spotify (hopefully CD-quality soon), Tidal, Qobuz, etc. but most say a computer is too "Noisy" to use for this purpose. Although, I have heard there are ways around this.
Rather than having to purchase a dedicated music server, does anyone know how to set up a computer as a high-quality music server? I can't really seem to find anything online.
Thanks
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@high-amp Thanks for answering my question. Many ways to go about what you are trying to achieve. Other posters have offered you valuable advice. If you are truly trying to keep it simple, while rebuilding your finances, home, room, etc. an extra phone or tablet is a great solution. Depending on the OS, using an app or additional software to maximize sound quality (via this route) will deliver good results; even more so if you also focus on the quality of the cabling and using intermediate devices to ~clean~ things up. Since you seem to be open to a DAC... AND are keeping your budget reasonable... AND are open to a ~multi~ function device... AND since it hasn't been mentioned...>>> Take a hard look at offerings from iFi Audio. High scores on performance to value, on overall flexibility, portability, and broad feature sets.
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ghdprentice Thanks, I’m aware of these products and will research them further.avid_ten - Great advice. I have heard great things about the Ifi Zen Stream. Thanks so much!
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A MBP with bitperfect is a decent source sonically. depending on the program you use to catalog and stream it can be weak or strong, but you want streaming anyway. I'm not sure how good/bad the native streaming clients are - warning I have seen some that are different animals on their own, and vastly btter in, say Roon.
The bifront multibit is decent. No more IMO. But you did say, honstly, mid-fi. At what, $700 its ok but there are much better. The non-multibit is weaker IMO.
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itsjustme - $700 it's ok but there are much better"Suggestions, please? |
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