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Music Servers are they good?

I am considering selling my Onix cd player and purchasing a Music server like the Yamaha CDR-HD1500. The 200GB hard drive should be plenty for me, but I don't have any experience with any music servers. I can get the Yamaha new for $600.00 which is about the most I want to spend. I don't care to make copy's, just store my cd collection for the convenience. I am going to eventually use a high quality $1000+ dac so optical and rca digital outs are a must.

If there are better for about the same price please let me know. I am looking for suggestions from people that are doing the same.
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restock
831 posts
 
Take a look at the PC Asylum:

Computer Audio Asylum

Best to use an existing computer, Laptop or a Mac Mini as music server, which allows you much more flexibility down the road than a ready-made server with built in hard drive.

Then there are many ways to connect your computer to the Stereo, starting with the Slimdevices Squeezebox, USB DACs like the Benchmark and Wavlength DACs, or external USB Soundcards like the EMU0404.

Good luck!
argyro
438 posts
 
In my opinion the most important part of playback is the DAC. So using a transport or a Hard drive is of low importence to me.

Regards,

Micahel

aca.gr
stereo OP
147 posts
 
I am building a TDA1541/S2 dac and I have two other dacs. I want something to make my life simpler. I have about 200 cd's and would like to borrow more and put them on some sort of hard drive system without compression. I want to make it simple and easy for anyone to use. I do like the fact that the Yamaha is compact and has a drive built in, but I am sure there are others. A computer should work well, but what about digital outputs (rca and optical)? The computer may also be a little bit more difficult to use.
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