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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: The commercial music servers.
Post Subject: Computer transport and DACPosted by Telstar on: 2/9/2008
 Romy the Cat wrote:

Yes, the enclosure something like this, thanks for tip, miab, but it opens a door for desire more. A good box with fanless operation, 1920 x 1200 pixels touch-screen, 6 hard-drives, remoter control, $650 price tag is very good beginning.  We could load it is with a good digital interface, run on the box a good file-reading software  and found the way to optimize windows to handle the only task we need (everything with external DAC).  The very first question I would ask myself then would be: how to make the audio station CR-ROM to read disk in real time with a quality of the best dedicated CD transports? If that task were solved then it will be “it” and I would be the first who would run to implement it. Unfortunately I have no expertise to made CD transport to “sound better” and all my experiments with make my computer-based CD-readers to sound even remotely close to TL0 end up to be complete fiasco.

The enter idea to have an integrated Music Server is that you would need juts one digital input on you DAC and can play you files and your CD/DVD from one workstation. I need to wait unit somebody resolve this problem.

Rgs, Romy the caT


Dear Romy,

The CW03, the case that i'm going to buy costs $650 alone:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=cw03&area=usa

About the number of hard disks you dont really need 6 just for audio. 2x1 TB drives would be more than adequate.
Fanless and platter-HDD is a bit of nonsense because the HDDs will pollute the power more than a couple of silent fans.
The othet option is to run a normal bulky workstation in another room and use a long digital cable.

I'm working on such a project for my personal needs and either way the point where i hit with my head is the DAC, cannot find the right one: I want to play 24/96 and higher-res audio files bit-perfect without much manipulation from the converter.

I think that the MSB platinum DAC III that somebody mentioned on this very forums is what comes close to such needs. I cannot find the thread anymore, but I wonder if this guy tried it yet.

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