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In Reply to: Perhaps the dead wood needs to go..... posted by Rod M on April 25, 2007 at 19:07:16:
Hey Rod,
Follow Ups:
The squeezebox does look interesting. I've got a network connection right next to the rack and a decent DAC though I really wish it had a USB output. After I get the next credit card bill with $1,600 in car repairs this month, I suspect I'll pick one up and try it.
-Rod
Hey Rod,Some people really dig the squeeze box approach, and there are mods that are supposed to improve the digital out. But for $300 it seems like what you were asking for more or less.
"There is no source but vinyl and Linn is its name"!! :-))Regards,
Hey ANdy,I probably should have said the Slim Devices Squeezebox...
Anyhow, I am SOOOOO glad I never got into vinyl. Sure, it can sound great, maybe even better, but man would my system suck if I had done that. My amp and speakers are about $5k. Imagine if I had to split that up between a pre-amp, a phono pre amp, more interconnects, an actual audio rack, cleaning machines, storage for the damn albums....
No active crossovers for Dawnrazor, no room correction, no changing songs at a whim, crappy amps, probably no sub, etc. Waf would go way down.
Hell, just buying music would be a challenge. You can barely find stores that have the crap I listen to let alone the vinyl of it. (I had to go to disney world to find the latest Fields of the Nephilim CD...I don't even think they put it out on vinyl). I surely don't want to be hanging around the college record stores looking for used copies of the Sisters of Mercy Floodland....
I do agree with Linn's "SOurce First" dogma, and that is why I chose a PC based system...and so did they.
I am looking to see if they make a plug in for Foobar that replicates album hiss and needle thumps :)
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