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RE: And Antipodes servers are expen$ive also. nt.

"Going Digital" is, by any definition, complicated.
If you're looking to "simplify things" look elsewhere.

That said: I'm a music lover/audiophile with over 40 very active years of participation. I've been on the same road you are contemplating for nearly a year - following a few false starts over the past several years.

I've read this entire thread and have come up with this:

***Carefully read and consider everything "Sordidman" has offered. It is very straightforward info w/o much personal bias or misinfo. You can start small/less complicated and expand.***

What you end up with is up to you and what best meets YOUR needs. What mine looks like is a "transport" in the form of an Auralic Aries, then a DAC/preamp feeding my amplifier(s) which drives the speakers. For now I have a USB drive plugged directly into the Aries. I control the whole show via an app on an iPad, including streaming Tidal via Wi-Fi. Amazingly effective and addictive. I'm listening to more and more varied music than ever. I'm getting great sound and am seriously contemplating letting go of my analog front end and records - shear heresy just a few months ago.

I very well may go the NAS route in the future. It has it's advantages, but I'll do it when I'm ready and have good reason to.

This is, no doubt, "The Future." Best of luck to you on your journey. What you're doing now is same as what I do when I start a project - go into "research mode" and soak up and process as much as I can on the given topic, a very good way to start.

ps: The SACD player route is a blind corner/dead end - already antiquated/very limited.

Enjoy!


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