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In Reply to: RE: high quality digital system posted by disgustipated on June 4, 2015 at 14:26:49:
1. A NAS is a "networked attached storage" drive. Think of it like a mini-computer that is also a hard drive that "serves up" your files to other networked computing devices. It can also run mini-apps like the Squeezebox server that can run apps for your playback devices. A media server to allow your networked DVD player to play movies... It has an IP address, almost always an ethernet port, you plug it into your home router via an Ethernet cable.The NAS doesn't hook up to the DAC. It hooks up to the router & the transport plays it via ethernet/wireless network. The Transport is either like a computer, or is a computer that has an IP address that connects to the router that the NAS or "file server" that is also connected to the router. It plays the file via an ethernet cable that is also plugged into the router. Some transports have wireless, and can connect to your wireless router. But that is lower quality and subject to interference with sub optimal wireless connections: IMO.
2. You "rip" CDs on a computer via a program like DBPOWERAMP. That's what "creates" the digital file for you to use. The quality is largely determined by what format you rip to. You can rip to .mp3 which is low quality. Most people rip to either FLAC or ALAC (apple lossless). They are compressed and that saves space. I rip to AIFF, - which is uncompressed. I have noticed on my system that uncompressed sounds better. YMMV. You then copy the digital files/albums that you've just ripped to your NAS drive.
3. The "transport" is the software/hardware, that plays back your digital files. These are components like the Auralic Aries, Sim Audio Mind, Sonore Rendu, SqueezeBox, (although Squeezebox also has a DAC), that take the digital file play it, (but do not convert it to analog), and send the digital signal to the DAC. It seems that many people here are also using their computers as transports, I still have a MAC Mini that I've not gotten rid of yet. It plays the files from my NAS drive via software, (Pure Music), and outputs digital USB to a converter, then onto my Universal CD/SACD/DVD player that bypasses it's disc spinning transport via a digital coax input.
4. It depends on the transport. Some have USB inputs that will allow for a USB thumb drive that contains digital files to play. Several also have wireless capability, - so if your IPOD has Airtunes, - (transport or "streamer)" accepts that... then yes, - it'll play from an Iphone or Ipod.
Cheers,
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Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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