"housetrained" wrote in message
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Hi
Is this the newsgroup to advise on living room [quiet] media players -
basically a HDD containing my music files connected to my DAC by digital
coax [or optical] with a window where I can see what's playing and a
remote? Don't need visual [i.e. TV out or HDMI] at all.
Any recommendations?
TIA

One solution to this problem is to store your music on a NAS which you keep
well away from you listening area, and then use something like a Logitech
Transporter to read the music from the NAS and pass it to your DAC.

As an alternative to the Transporter you could use a laptop with a M2Tech
HiFace USB/SPIF converter.

The transporter is expensive. I don't know of an alternative, but I do know
that there are a number of Apple products in this area.

You would need to use a PC to rip the music from CDs and store in on the
NAS.

You then have to address such issues as to what file format to use e.g. flac
and how to keep backup copies.

It would appear that the HiFi world is moving in this direction. Perhaps
partly for convenience, and because it offers the opportunity to use better
than CD quality digital music.


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Michael Chare