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In Reply to: RE: Playing files from a hard drive posted by PAR on May 11, 2017 at 16:57:07
I would prefer to use an audio component.
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I second that.
Hard drives are OK for music files on a NAS but keep PCs out of the chain apart from their ability to select your music.
For fast and reliable access, nothing beats Sonos. I have partly upgraded to using BluOS to handle my music files through a Master Series NAD (M12) which is certainly an audio improvements but a control downgrade. BluOS is better than any UPnP I've seen but still not quite as slick as the Sonos interface
How would I integrate Sonos if I already have speakers and an integrated amplifier? Which component would I need?
All you need is a Sonos Connect - £350. Use an Ethernet cable to connect it to your NAS, a co-ax or optical digital cable to your DAC and get the control app on any PC, tablet or phone.The Connect has a built-in DAC but it isn't exactly state-of-the-art so use a "proper" one!
The user interface developed by Sonos is so intuitive and easy.
What it won't do is handle hi-res files but Redbook (CD) is fine - as well as MP£ of course if you stoop to that format!
Edits: 05/16/17 05/16/17
Bryston BDP-2
Never sure about the Bryston. I'm sure it does what it's designed to do very well, but does it do all you want it to?
I have the NAD M12 that is in effect a digital and analogue preamp and DAC plus (with a board added) a BluOS streamer. I'm very pleased with it.
My music is stored on a RipNAS - combined ripper and NAS. I've had this for some years and the hard drives are nearly full.
I'd like a single box that rips, stores the ripped files, but also plays CDs without ripping them first. Friends' CDs for example, that I may not want to keep. There's not much out there, but NAD has just come up with such a box - the M50.2. The trouble with that is that it duplicates much of the M12 and this has rendered it substantially over-priced.
Everything on the M12 is there (fewer inputs) except the all-important DAC and IR remote. If it included these I'd sell the M12 and all would be rosy, but that's not possible. A cut-down version of M50.2 (rip, store, play only) would suit M12 owners, or add the DAC and remote and we'd have a great one-box device that will directly feed a power amp.
Peter
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