Does The Squeezebox Touch Have a Worthy Successor?

Mitch4t, I'm not really into low grade sound quality of internet radio.
I'm looking for a way to play my 1TB hardrive the simplest way. The Bryston looks like the one to get for that. I just wish there was a cheaper way since the Touch performs pretty good for the original cost.

I really don't know about that Bryston unit. Just looking at the specs, I'm getting the feeling that most of the price is going to be for the name.

For the money, you could get into a modded Mac Mini, build a CAPS server, get a modded Sonos unit or a number of other options.

Of course, I haven't played with one, but again, just reading from the specs, it sounds a whole lot like a pre built CAPS server.

Ozzy, if all you're worried about is pulling files off of a 1TB drive, there are plenty of ways to do that. I'd first attach that drive or transfer the files to an NAS. Once you do that, there are a bunch of possibilities.

You can get into a Synology single drive NAS device for around $300 and use an external drive for backups.

Tonyangel, Thanks for the reply. I'm not too computer savvy but I will look into the NAS device you refer to.
Thanks.

05-29-13: Ozzy
Mitch4t, I'm not really into low grade sound quality of internet radio.

I'm using Touch coaxial digital out into my DAC for internet radio. It sounds very very good ... never use Touch analog outs and probably doesn't sound too good.

Ozzy,

You really don't need to be computer savvy to setup a Synology Diskstation. You just pop the hard drive into it, plug is into your router/switch/hub and run the setup disk. Next thing you know, it shows up on your network.