"TonyL" wrote in message


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.

You must be talking about the new Sony BD player that has DLNA support. This
is very hot and new.

DLNA supports NAS, which includes PCs that do file sharing. NAS hard drives,
which now can cost barely more than non-networked external hard drives are
also supported by NAS as homes for music and video libraries.

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.

I see no reason why it shouldn't be. In your system the converters in the
BD player set the analog quality, and there's no reason to believe that they
are not of high enough quality to be sonically transparent.

BD players with DLNA support seem to a bell that tolls for many dedicated
music library devices, given reasonable user-level skills.