Which USB sticks will you be using with your Naim DAC

Posted by: Guido Fawkes on 12 March 2010

Just wondered if folks were planning one one album per stick, all the albums by one artist on a stick - plus are there any USB sticks that are easy to label - how will you store your sticks so you don't lose them - which are best made sticks - is it better to use big sticks (16GB+) or little sticks (1GB) - which sticks sound best (air-Stick?) ....

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by garyi

What are you on about?

Surely the stick is just an very rare once in a while thing, i.e. a mate is round with some music he happens to have on a stick or something?

You aren't seriously gonna have like a 1000 sticks in the living room all on a key ring are you???

haha.

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by gone

nice try, but it's not April 1st yet

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by rich46

quote:
Originally posted by Nero:
nice try, but it's not April 1st yet

dont give the naimies any ideas they will want naim to produce memory sticks

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by ferenc

If you do not want to use computer in your music room, but have a cheap, ordinary computer as a music storage in another room, to use a USB stick to copy a cd and listen with the Naim DAC is a very useful and high quality option.

Takes less than a minute to copy a CD to the stick. Or if you have a CD transport, but have some high - rez (>44k) recording from let's say digitized LPs, again gives you new opportunities to play the files without computer. An LP easily can be digitized in 96k/24 bit and the could be copied on a 4 GB stick in about two minutes.

So yes, playing from an USB stick is a very high quality and practical option, if you can live with the very simple navigation. But again, usually I just stat a cd and stop at the end, and it could be done by a stick.

I think a 4 GB stick is the most practical option. Cheap enough and can hold an LP in 96k and some more. I have quite a few around my desk and now I am using them as music storage device.

For some reason I like the new sticks with this golden traced connection a bit more than the ordinary ones, like this Super Talent Pico or the similar Memorette Dual Gold.

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by garyi

Got me hook line and sinker, too much foo round here of late

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by u5227470736789439

A range of three perhaps:

The flat-stick, the Hi-stick and the Super-stick ...

Then after further developemen they can be given suffixes like "2" and "X" as time goes by, with considerable debate here about the relative sound quality of each variant ... :¬)

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by DHT

I would expect the USB stick to offer the best sound quality of any of the options available to the Naim dac.
( without adding external interface of course)

Posted on: 12 March 2010 by james n