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In Reply to: RE: Inferior sound from USB external drive? posted by audioengr on October 20, 2014 at 10:37:22
Gosh, just read this before I jumped for a new Dell machine. If Dell are not so good in this respect have you a brand that you could recommend to me? Or is it simply a case of "anything but..."?
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If you are able, it is best to build your own using the best components you can find.
It is difficult to recommend anything as you have not said what your requirements are. For me, it is better to have a powerful general purpose machine and a low power (35W or less) fanless.
If you are worried about the usb port, get a Schiit Decrapifier or iFi USB Power to fir to your usb port for audio.
Thanks for your advice. I am sure that you must be right about building one's own but as you point out - "If you are able". I'm more kind of useless :-). In fact I read this forum and so much of it flies over my head that its a danger to low flying aircraft.
I am dipping my toe after a Proms season of enjoying the Radio 3 HD streams. I also recognise that the silver disc is on its way and that I will have to grapple with some kind of digital file audio sooner or later.
I have l looked at a lot of player software and am put off by the poor metadata capabilities to suit Western classical music. In the end I have found something called Sonata Server which is a mash up of J River and dbpoweramp with an overlay to cope with classical music metadata. So my needs are to run that. Output is to an asynchronous DAC which can handle most common PCM and DSD file formats.
Any further thoughts? I understand that the Sonata software runs best with a touch screen.
JRiver itself has really good features for browsing classical music collections.
The screenshot shows a classical music view that I have used for years.
The link below is to a step-by-step guide for creating a classical music view in JRiver MC.
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
Thanks. That is very useful. A lot of work though with tens of thousands of tracks to enter (if I ripped my whole collection).
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