"Geoff Mackenzie" wrote in message
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Brennan JB7

Does anyone have experience (or comments) on this? On the face of it
looks ideal for my needs - copies CDs but much more importantly allows me
to record my LPs from my own turntable and pre-amp, unlike those godawful
machines frequently advertised in the mass media.. Also has a 60wpc power
amp built in which would do me very nicely. For a bit south of 400 quid
it seems too good to be true.

Any views?

Geoff MacK


I've recently started storing my CDs on a NAS and then streaming them to my
hifi system using uPnP.
This works well enough, but I am glad that I have some redundancy as the
Samsung 1.5TB Ecogreen hard disk in the NAS failed after 27 days!

The hard disk (and the NAS) came from eBuyer. On Tuesday 29th there were 28
people ahead of me in the returns dept queue. By Wednesday mid day this had
reduced to about 9, so I waited and they actually answered after just a few
minutes. The disk should have been collected on Thursday, but no one came.

I ordered a replacement from Scan (different brand of disk) that was
supposed to be shipped on Tuesday to arrive on Wednesday, but was shipped
and arrive a day late.

Another advantage of the this approach is that the NAS can be kept somewhere
where the noise of its spinning disk and fans are not a problem (my attic)

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Michael Chare