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Need computer audio advice.

All of my digital music is on my desktop iMac, a 500GB machine. I have only 70GB free space, so I think my drive is getting full. I was thinking of getting an external drive (say 1 or 2 TB) and simply moving all my music off the desktop and on to the external drive.
Is this a good solution ? Will there be any sonic problems ? Most of my music is CDs ripped and stored in lossless formats, FLAC or WAV. Some of my files are high res files 24/96 from HD Tracks. I stream over a network to a Logitech Squeezebox touch.
It this solution has problems, what would you recommend ?
Thanks, Matt
mabonn
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mapman
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I have been using 2Gb external USB drives with Squeezebox system via Wifi now for a few years. Works great, sounds great, a good way to go.

If there is an issue it will be with wifi bandwidth to handle high res files. I have thousands of CD quality lossless files I use, but have not tried Hires. The issue would be rebuffering delays if not enough network bandwidth for hi res, not sound quality. I have no problems with any of this with CD res files.
mabonn OP
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Thanks for all your responses. Very helpful.
saeyedoc
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Ignore most of the advice above, you're using a squeezebox. so it's simple. I use a 2TB HD and also the internal drive on an imac that's running LMS. No problem at all. Simply copy everything to the external HD, go into LMS and add that folder to the library and have it scan it.
doggiehowser
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The Squeezebox is convenient but IMHO it's not the best quality I've heard on my system. I think Steve sells a reclocker that can work with the Squeezebox that will improve things significantly tho.
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kijanki
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Doggiehowser, My Benchmark DAC1 does reclocking internally and have pretty good jitter suppression (very clean sound), but according to Steve external reclocker does even better job. I have to try one someday.
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