Squeze Box Question

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I love my cd player, my turntable and my FM tuner. However, my unmodded Squeezebox with no external DAC has become my number one source of listening to music. It's just too easy to access nearly unlimited amounts of music instantly. With vinyl, there's the whole cleaning ritual, with cd's you've got to find the one disc among over a thousand and put it back in its place when done listening, and my FM tuner is tuned to the only jazz staion in town. The Squeeezbox, for a miniscule fraction of the price of all of the aforementioned components does all of those functions much faster and it is much more convenient. I'm not quite ready to give up my other sources just yet, but I can see the handwriting on the wall. Once I pull the trigger on a Modwright-modded Transporter, the cd player and the tuner will have to go. I cannot afford that kind of redundancy.
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I'm in same boat as Mitch4t only with server, Roku + external DAC. I use the Roku for ~ 80% of my listening currently between music server and web radio. Most of the rest is turntable, with occasional use of FM tuner or CD player, but I tend to rip a disk to server now first to listen so the Denon player is geting very little play time these days.

If I could find a way to convert my vinyl to digital faster and easier for access off the server when needed my time with vinyl could be in more jeopardy as well.

Just a year ago, prior to the server/Roku, my listening was perhaps 60% CD, 25% vinyl, 15% FM tuner.

"unmodded Squeezebox can't touch a Wavelength Brick"

I certainly hope the $1750. Wavelength Brick sounds better than a $300. Squeezebox.

"A 15 foot SPDIF cable would break the bank."

You can get a 15' SPDIF cable for under $50. see

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/digital-audio/index.htm

Insight- If you don't already have small PDA or iPhone/iTouch, take a look at the Logitech Duet.

Unclejeff,
Are you using the Transporter into the Anthem D2 or the Squeezebox? Wondering if your choice of transport makes a difference.
Are you using the ARC system in the D2 for room correction?
Thanks,
Bill

Kana -

Bluejean delivers great value for the money. And I suspect they will build you a real 75ohm cable.

That said, no one runs SPDIF that far - the implementation at both ends would have to be near perfect.

Once you get into the fact that there is tremendous variation in the sound of SPDIF cables (is it the cable? does one cable do a better job overcoming problems at one end or both? no one knows) My point is simply that most of us could not afford a "name" 15'. And there is no compelling reason to run one to connect a computer rig to a DAC.

I agree with your comment on Wavelength versus SB quality. Wayne posited the question. But the actual reason that it is better is not cost but the fact that Gordon Rankin has invested an enormous amount of time in perfecting the implementation of his solution.