Geoff Mackenzie wrote:

At first glance the Olive seems very expensive and does a lot of
things I don't need. The Brennan would be ideal if it were possible
to back up, and also copy the contents to another machine - ideal for
those post-divorce arguments about who owned which CDs/LPs! Must
contact Brennan tech support (I assume they have one) and find out if
either is possible.
I do intend to keep all the originals, apart from a few odd LPs
which should sell rather well on eBay, but was thinking more of the
considerable time and effort it's going to take to transcribe a
pretty extensive collection.


After my old cd player finally stopped working (plastic transport mechanism
parts disintegrated) I was also interested in a Brennen-like solution but
couldn't make a decision and left it 'pending'.

Then our DVD player gave up the ghost last week and we got a Sony Blu-Ray
player replacement. Almost as an afterthought, one of the built in features
is wifi connectivity and I realized that I now have a PC-based solution for
my original CD issue because the Blu-Ray player can access audio files on my
PCs via a home network. Navigation is easy since the player screen display
mimics the folder organisation on the PCs. Audio out from the player into my
IPL transmission line speakers via a Pioneer amp sounds great to my aging
ears.

Cheers,
TonyL