reignofchaos
Well-Known Member
I have no plans to place a PC in my listening room. Most of them are too noisy in dedicated rooms. So the reason I started this thread was to consider a PC'less harddisk based audio system, with a warm clear sound normally associated with standalone CD players. This NAD CDplayer does solve that problem but in an expensive way.
The other options are:
- WD TV HD with an external DAC.
- Squeezebox is good too but I do not want to do this over the LAN. I could get a NAS drive with Slimserver installed on it, but that might be a hassle, and I already have a few USB drives that I could use. I am looking forward to an upgrade to squeezebox (long overdue), which might support USB.
Thanks,
Sharad
Neither of those are low jitter transports. High quality PC soundcards/USB or Firewire interfaces are a lot better. The squeezebox is better than WD TV, however to really get it to work properly, you need a linear, regulated 12V PSU. Stock wall wart won't cut in.
Why don't you come over to my place sometime? I use a pure computer transport. You are most welcome to come and evaluate it.
Cheers