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NEED HELP WITH A QUESTION

My system is lovely and I am very happy with its sound.
Krell 402e, BAT Rex preamp, Esoteric K-01 CD/SACD player, Revel Salon2 speakers, Stealth Indra and Siltech cables.

Here is the question: I want to be able to play music from a iPhone or a laptop, etc., for when I am entertaining and want a playlist or just a long selection of music. I don't want to have to play CD after CD. This is merely for listening with people over for dinner, cocktails, etc.

The sound from the system fills the house no problem. I know that the Esoteric has the ability to use its DAC with an external digital source.

What is the best/easiest way to solve the problem?
I don't want to make the switch to a server as my sole source. I also do not ncessarily need to listen to hi-res files only. There will be a mix of music from my phone, my daughter's phones, other phones, etc., plus I may want to build a couple of playlists on an iPad that are a bit more specific (jazz only, pop only, vocals only, etc.). Those playlists could be hi-res or not. But as I said before this is for non-critical listening.

Which pieces do I add to the system, what cables do I need?
huntermusic
acbc
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Another solution is the NAD dac1, cost $200. Its available everywhere like best buy, crutchfield, audio advisor, etc... It's a wireless system with a small transmitter that plugs into your Mac/pc via a USB cable, the other component, the receiver, has both line level and digital outputs. It's a very simple set up. Requires no software, other than iTunes or whatever's native to your computer. I have one connected to my CD player via the digital out and it works well.

Do a web search and check it out.

http://nadelectronics.com/products/digital-music/DAC-1-Wireless-USB-Digital-to-Analogue-Converter

Note: you can go nuts trying to select a digital cable. From the reading I did whatever cable you do select make sure it's at least 1.5M long. IMHO - it did make a difference.

Good luck
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passet02
267 posts
 
Where the Hell people get the $$$ to buy this over priced equipment , How about the new Rogue Sphinx intergrate ?It already put China out of buiness .
hevac1
812 posts
 
If you have or can put music on your PC and have a network use JRiver. You can download the app JRemote for you IPhone use it as the player device or remote to play music from your computer to a dac device. You can also use JRiver to play music on your laptop to its own speakers. Cost is minimal but your music is with you everywhere. You must open port forwarding on your network to use it everywhere you go but that is the hardest part of the setup.
Also look into a program called Subsonic Music Streamer it's free. It coverts most network music files on the fly to MP3's and there are Apps that connect to it. I just started setting up this program so info is limited at this time. I figure if you want music from your IPhone you are not looking for high quality.
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