Why CD players will never be dead

Grannyring,

What's the rush? Wait another year or two and you'll be able to get something easy-to-use and fantastic for your $1500. The pace of improvement is like lightning right now. A huge investment in computer audio right now will likely result in disappointment later. The reason you get so many conflicting opinions about what works is that people are just now figuring some of this out.. We're still in BETA (at least in terms of user- friendliness) when it comes to computer audio. Just my two cents.

Grannyring,

My TRL is not the latest version, it is a few years old. And it does sound really good. I am ripping seedees using DB poweramp into Apple Lossless. I find that this sounds better than FLAC or WAV to my ears. I added the CIA PS for the squeezebox, but that is the only mod so far. I plan to have Bolder do their digital out mod on the SB.

Shakey

Shakey,

Wayne at Bolder modded my linear PS and I am loving the result. He's got a Bybee mod that's supposed to be amazing. Too bad I'm over budget right now.

Thanks Shakey and point well taken Vhiner. I will wait more.
I do own a Squeezebox Touch and an Apple iMac into a Bel Canto DAC in my smaller second system. I will try your DB Poweramp idea and press on learning in my second system.

The biggest obstacle to a music server for me, beyond ripping over 1500 CDs, is the music selection process. When I look at the shelves of CDs it allows me to browse in a different way than any computer graphics can give me. I'm the sort of listener that seldom knows what I want to hear until I browse. This is the same issue I have with shopping for CDs on Amazon, which I usually do, but how I miss music stores. With Amazon and with music servers it works best if you know approxomately what you want. I'm, perhaps, too impulsive.