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In Reply to: CD transport - newbie advice sought posted by psgary on May 5, 2024 at 10:39:09:
Take Cut-Throat's recommendation. Why put money into an outdated transport mechanism when all the world's music is available for $15/month? A lot of it is in hi-res too on Qobuz and Tidal. Get the best DAC that you think is worth the price and get a streamer or use a Raspberry Pi as a streamer, or an old Macbook running Audirvana and connect via USB. Use your existing CD player as a transport, but I can almost guarantee you won't use it much when you find your favorite CD is also on the streaming service. Why get up to put it into the player when all you need to do is select it from your phone/tablet/computer?
I use a combination of Raspberry Pi and Macbook, depending on how lazy I am. I need to get up from the couch and plug the Macbook in, or I can just stream to the Raspberry Pi from the Macbook over the wifi with DLNA. I find the Macbook plugged directly sounds ever so slightly better. I have other systems around the house that also have RPi connected so I can stream to any of them too, or directly from a phone as my adult kids do when they are here. It is any device to any system and no magic is involved, no special setups. It just works.
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Follow Ups
- RE: CD transport - newbie advice sought - zacster 05:50:14 05/08/24 (32)
- Raspberry Pi ?? - AbeCollins 14:54:41 05/12/24 (1)
- +1 .........nt - Cut-Throat 18:05:25 05/12/24 (0)
- Streaming - psgary 13:33:29 05/09/24 (29)
- Some folks are coming on rather harshly in favor of streaming - Chris from Lafayette 00:25:29 05/10/24 (9)
- Thanks, Chris. - psgary 13:54:20 05/10/24 (0)
- RE: Some folks are coming on rather harshly in favor of streaming - Sibelius 12:03:16 05/10/24 (7)
- Now I can't remember who was harsh - but you were definitely fine - Chris from Lafayette 01:02:21 05/11/24 (0)
- Sampling music - psgary 13:49:48 05/10/24 (5)
- RE: Sampling music - Sibelius 15:01:51 05/10/24 (4)
- AntiCables - psgary 19:30:33 05/10/24 (3)
- "You're right. Detestable was a bit loaded, and I wondered about using it at the time.".......... - Cut-Throat 06:44:06 05/11/24 (0)
- RE: AntiCables - Sibelius 21:29:38 05/10/24 (1)
- Level 2 - psgary 12:19:24 05/12/24 (0)
- RE: Streaming - Mali 14:51:54 05/09/24 (0)
- RE: Streaming - Cut-Throat 14:30:14 05/09/24 (17)
- RE: Streaming - zacster 19:47:34 05/10/24 (1)
- Me, too - E-Stat 07:11:15 05/11/24 (0)
- RE: Streaming - psgary 13:12:13 05/10/24 (11)
- The key advantage - E-Stat 13:49:45 05/10/24 (10)
- Advantage - psgary 14:03:02 05/10/24 (9)
- RE: Advantage - mlsstl 18:14:02 05/10/24 (3)
- Preview - psgary 19:39:14 05/10/24 (2)
- RE: Preview - Sibelius 10:05:02 05/11/24 (1)
- Presto - psgary 11:40:04 05/12/24 (0)
- RE: Advantage - Mali 16:34:32 05/10/24 (1)
- Blindfold - psgary 19:41:32 05/10/24 (0)
- Ok - E-Stat 14:38:14 05/10/24 (2)
- Actually... - raingerz 12:04:54 05/10/24 (0)
- Exactly right! - AbeCollins 22:04:03 05/09/24 (0)
- RE: Streaming - Sibelius 19:58:00 05/09/24 (0)
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