Buy High Resolution Technologies Music Streamer II+ . It is a USB DAC and does not require a sound card. It is very very good sounding DAC. It is crazy good and for $350.00 you cannot beat it. My audio friends think I should own a more expensive DAC to match the rest of my system. I keep comming back to the music streamer. I now have the music streamer pro and it sounds better yet. It is the balanced version of the II+. Oddly I liked my II+ better than the PS Audio Perfect Wave Dac that I just sold here on audiogon. My new music streamer pro sounds better than my friends Audio Research DAC 8. He just cannot believe that this little box. I am now sold on simple is best.
All about Music Servers for a minute......
Hello All:
How is everyone this evening???
I did post under Analog last week, in the hope of getting some kind of handle in which I wanted to know which Turntable/Arm/Cartridge System to get, and to determine which Phono Stage I should consider as well.
It can NOW be said that I pretty much got a handle on things. My selection right now is:
(01). Turntable -- Rega P3-24/RB-301 Arm -- $895.00; or Rega P5/RB-701 Arm -- $1,395.00
(02). Phono Cartridge -- Grado Prestige Gold Mk II -- $225.00 (MM); or Sumiko Blue Point Special II -- $400.00 (MC)
(03). Phono Stage -- PS Audio GCPH -- $1,000.00 (New); $600.00 to $700.00 (Used)
And that is that.
And to signify that I am serious about that shit, I even went as far as to buy over $35.00 worth of used vinyl off of e-Bay today. And that is to add to the vinyl that I have already acquired either through estate sales, being passed down from friends who do not want to spin vinyl any more, or from my late father. I will continue to acquire vinyl here on out.
But now, what I want to know is what do I do about my existing CD Collection??? I have bought me an i-Pod classic about three (well, almost four) years ago (and love it tremendously), and I started either uploading some of my CD Collection into i-Tunes, and then onto my i-Pod, and the music that is on my i-Pod is also on my computer's hard drive.
And now, this gets to the situation right now as I am continuing to re-vamp my audio system.
Instead of investing into another stand alone Compact Disc Player, I am thinking of buying myself a Laptop Computer for Christmas this year, and then coverting my old PC into a large capacity Music Server, and then just buying a D/A Converter and connect my old PC to that.
And what I want to know is can it even be done at all, and if so, do I need to invest in a new sound card with digital outputs, and then connect my PC and External Hard Disk to the D/A Converter??? Or will my existing sound card be adaquate???
Right now, unless something changes during the rest of the year, my choices for D/A Converters will be:
(01). PS Audio Digital Link III
(02). Musical Fidelity M1
Well..... that's it for now.
Basically, my question is, can I convert my old PC to a Music Server??? Or do I need to go on and just buy a component that is designed to be a Music Server in the first place???
Thanks A Lot In Advance.....
Happy Shopping & Happy Listening.....
--Charles--
How is everyone this evening???
I did post under Analog last week, in the hope of getting some kind of handle in which I wanted to know which Turntable/Arm/Cartridge System to get, and to determine which Phono Stage I should consider as well.
It can NOW be said that I pretty much got a handle on things. My selection right now is:
(01). Turntable -- Rega P3-24/RB-301 Arm -- $895.00; or Rega P5/RB-701 Arm -- $1,395.00
(02). Phono Cartridge -- Grado Prestige Gold Mk II -- $225.00 (MM); or Sumiko Blue Point Special II -- $400.00 (MC)
(03). Phono Stage -- PS Audio GCPH -- $1,000.00 (New); $600.00 to $700.00 (Used)
And that is that.
And to signify that I am serious about that shit, I even went as far as to buy over $35.00 worth of used vinyl off of e-Bay today. And that is to add to the vinyl that I have already acquired either through estate sales, being passed down from friends who do not want to spin vinyl any more, or from my late father. I will continue to acquire vinyl here on out.
But now, what I want to know is what do I do about my existing CD Collection??? I have bought me an i-Pod classic about three (well, almost four) years ago (and love it tremendously), and I started either uploading some of my CD Collection into i-Tunes, and then onto my i-Pod, and the music that is on my i-Pod is also on my computer's hard drive.
And now, this gets to the situation right now as I am continuing to re-vamp my audio system.
Instead of investing into another stand alone Compact Disc Player, I am thinking of buying myself a Laptop Computer for Christmas this year, and then coverting my old PC into a large capacity Music Server, and then just buying a D/A Converter and connect my old PC to that.
And what I want to know is can it even be done at all, and if so, do I need to invest in a new sound card with digital outputs, and then connect my PC and External Hard Disk to the D/A Converter??? Or will my existing sound card be adaquate???
Right now, unless something changes during the rest of the year, my choices for D/A Converters will be:
(01). PS Audio Digital Link III
(02). Musical Fidelity M1
Well..... that's it for now.
Basically, my question is, can I convert my old PC to a Music Server??? Or do I need to go on and just buy a component that is designed to be a Music Server in the first place???
Thanks A Lot In Advance.....
Happy Shopping & Happy Listening.....
--Charles--
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