Downsides of computer based audio.

You need a NAT05, then you will always have music. It's a nice day; why not go for a country walk?

Nigel

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Originally posted by james n:
When your PSU fails and no apple reseller locally sells them. No music this weekend then.


Bugger

No CD transport or DVD player knocking around?

Oh and James has a NAT 02, IIRC.

Joe

Have two computers ...

or get an LP12

Eggs and baskets come to mind.

Obviously, You could easily have avoided this by just having a CD555 with 2 555PSs. I know that the CD555 is virtually unlistenable with only one PS (sounds broken) but at least you'd have music. But wait, what if your transport failed?

Winky

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But wait, what if your transport failed?

Then you go the either the spare 555 or the spare CDS3 you kept for just such a scanrio. Of course a CDS3 is almost unlistenable as we all know.

Cheers

Jim

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You need a NAT05, then you will always have music. It's a nice day; why not go for a country walk?

Good suggestion - we listened to Jonathan Ross on the Nat02 and then i took the missus shopping. Serious brownie points

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Serious brownie points

Now maybe she will let you buy the CD555!

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Now maybe she will let you buy the CD555!

No point taking a backwards step.

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Originally posted by james n:

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You need a NAT05, then you will always have music. It's a nice day; why not go for a country walk?

Good suggestion - we listened to Jonathan Ross on the Nat02 and then i took the missus shopping. Serious brownie points

All you got for that was brownies?

What we used to call brownies at Prep School got a seious telling off from the Matron, before one washed the offending item of underware ... before it was sent to the lauderers ...

That was below the belt, George.

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:
You need a NAT05, then you will always have music. It's a nice day; why not go for a country walk?

Nigel

Just don't ramble in the "orchard" too long...

Mini has returned (dodgy logic board)- and so its back to beautiful music again.

Glad to learn you have tunes playing again James, out of interest can I ask how old is the mini and did it have to go Apple for repair?

I had thought from you're first post it was just apple ps and not the mini itself.

14 months - so just out of warranty which is why i'll be taking it up with apple. I did initially suspect the PSU until i got my hands on another one but it turned out to be more serious than that (and a lot more expensive). Saying that its the only one out of 4 other Macs i own which has ever given trouble. It'll be coming apart again tonight as i have an SSD drive to fit to replace the existing hard disk unit.

James

James, out of curiosity, is the SSD simply for the OSX, i-Tunes and Amarra. Are your rips on a separate HDD?

If so, I would be really interested to learn what difference, if any, you hear by using an SSD rather than the native HDD for running the software.

Yep - that's the idea. The mini is dedicated to audio and all my music is on NAS so i thought i'd follow sonics recommendation and use an SSD. Report to follow

James

Well that was painless. Unfortunately everyones in bed so no real chance to have a listen but its up and running and i didnt break the thing