How to blow a Bonus!?
Posted by: MontyMusic on 11 July 2010
Well.... I have £2.5k to spend on an upgrade this year. I'm very interested in getting into streamed music but this isn't a 100% must. I have about 3000 CD's so ripping would take an age but I would obviously prioritise!!
My question is which way to go....
My options are:
1) Sell my old (2 years) CDX-2 and get Unitiserve and DAC
2) Get a DAC and hook up my Macbook Pro with Hi-Face and Pure Music
3) Upgrade CDX2 with XPS2
4) Convert CDX2 and get a DAC and also use option 2)
5) Sell CDX2 and get HDX
Which way would you go?
There are too many options!!!
My question is which way to go....
My options are:
1) Sell my old (2 years) CDX-2 and get Unitiserve and DAC
2) Get a DAC and hook up my Macbook Pro with Hi-Face and Pure Music
3) Upgrade CDX2 with XPS2
4) Convert CDX2 and get a DAC and also use option 2)
5) Sell CDX2 and get HDX
Which way would you go?
There are too many options!!!
quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by Aleg:
How much bandwidth do you think you need for 2-channel audio playback?
Even a 2-channel 192kHz/24-bit PCM has a datastream of just under 9Mb/s, put on some overhead for headers etc, so a mere 10 Mb/s should be sufficient for 192kHz/24-bit stereo replay.
What would you have your remaining 790 Mb/s do then?
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aleg
Nothing just gives some head room - are you implying wireless to a NAS will be fine if so that could be a viable option, but I prefer the DAS route. It is personal preference as much as anything.
ROTF
As I stated in some other thread I have my NAS wired via Cat5 to my router (via an intermediate switch), but my mediaplayer (a humble PopcornHour A-100 at the moment) is connected via a wireless bridge to my router using 802.11n protocol.
This is very much sufficient for audio playback, I can even play HighRes Video over this wireless connection without stuttering or whatever.
So yes definitely a wireless could be al you need to connect a player to a NAS.
In one thread Naim advised not to use two wireless connections to connect to a NAS (one between player and router and one between router and NAS), but in my experience one wireless connection between player and router is fine.
At this moment my 802.11n connection runs at 162Mbps which is plenty for even HighRes-Video as I said before.
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aleg