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In Reply to: RE: CD transport for Topping D-90 dac posted by AbeCollins on July 25, 2020 at 09:52:33
You may be right. I ordered a Audiolab CDT-6000 from Amazon to check it out myself. If it does not work out, I can always return it. I figured nobody will be able to tell me if it would or would not. If it does, it will save some space as the Yamaha takes up a lot of space and I don't play SACDs. If it does not, then I will invest in some SACDs to make use of the player.
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I. Dandaroy
Follow Ups:
Thoroughly enjoying my Audiolab 6000cdt.
Replaced an old Roksan Caspian I had been using as a transport. The Roksan was built like a tank. Audiolab not so much, but they wanted to hit a certain budget. And it looks fine to me.
From what I've read, your Yamaha is also built like a tank and a gorgeous player as was reflected in it's selling price.
Try not to let the build and cosmetics bias your opinion between the units. What the Audiolab does, it does very well.
I like the idea of the Pi4 mentioned. I don't stream, but would use it for new release digital 16 bit and hi res downloads where available. Ripping all my CD's eventually, low priority for me.
Admittedly I do still enjoy some of the fine tactile qualities of CD pkging and thematic artwork. As with all the vinyl I have. Each to their own.
Hope the Audiolab works out well for you.
Cheers!
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
Or Get a Streamer that streams DSD Audio and you can Download DSD Material... Your new Dac will play them just fine!A streamer such as an Raspberry Pi, will also be a lot smaller and take up far less space than your 'Transports'... In addition it will be able to stream any Radio Station in the World, and you can ditch any tuner that you might have, saving even more space. And Save a lot of money to Boot !!
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I have scroes of CDs that are not available via streaming.
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I. Dandaroy
Yup! --- Then you just rip them to a Disk Drive and stream them from there. I've got over 5,000 Albums myself on a Hard Drive smaller than a deck of Cards.
I am too lazy to rip hundreds of CDs, let alone thousands.
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I. Dandaroy
How can you possibly have the energy to load them in a Player more than Once? -- When you Rip them, you only have to do it once... Think about it.
I still listen to vinyl, so what you mention is a non-issue! ;-)
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I. Dandaroy
on your experience with rhe new transport. Interested.
If you ever setup a music server on a PC / Mac / or NAS, the trick is to RIP your CD's in batches over time starting with your favorites. But be sure to use good ripping software on the PC/Mac like dBpoweramp. And above all be sure to RIP using lossless compression or no compression at all (no mp3 or aac). You don't want to have to go back and redo your work. I probably don't have as many CDs as you but that's what I did.I've been using Mac Minis over the years for my music server but recently moved everything to a Synology NAS with 2 disk bays. I use Roon software to manage my music. Roon Core is on the NAS and I use the Roon Remote on my computer or iPad to control it all.
I "stream" over my network to the tiny Sonore microRendu but its interesting to note that outstanding performance can be had in a sub $100 DIY streamer using the Raspberry Pi board. I have a couple of those too.
Roon also supports Qobuz and Tidal streaming so along with my own Library comprised of my CD RIPs, Roon displays albums that I have chosen from the streaming services. It's all very convenient.
Home office setup:
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It took me over 10 years to convert my collection of well over 5,000 albums, but about a third were LPs and open reels. That really slows the process!Of course, I started that process over 15 years ago, well before the streaming services were up and running. Today, I would have converted a lot less of the collection. Basically, I would have limited the process these days to just those rarities and items not available for streaming -- I have a lot of material that was never released commercially, out-of-print and the like. That still would have saved a lot of time!
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