Recent content by RockAddict

Hi James - thanks for the suggestion. I did briefly consider the Squeezebox route but realised the Marantz M-CR610 would do pretty much the same - or at least what I was initially looking for (i.e. USB flash drives etc with gapless FLAC supported). However, the prospect of a single drive of...

This may or may not be helpful to others... :shhh: Since posting, I *may* have found a solution that doesn't involve streaming from a laptop etc. It seems the Cocktail Audio X10 will do pretty much everything I am looking for. Apparently, the onboard amp & DAC aren't much to write home about...

*BUMP* I found this thread and, given it is now 3 years old, wondered if there had been any new equipment that will play gapless FLAC & WAV files from a USB stick. As with the OP, I'm looking for either a CD player OR a DAC that will play FLAC & WAV files from a USB flash drive. Although my...

Son_of_SJ & bigboss: Yes, the Oppo was on the list until I found out that the audio electronics in a disc player became redundant if the DP was connected to the AVR by way of HDMI. All the relevant audio work is then done by the AVR. I did consider using RCA connections for stereo sound...

Update... I ended up trying out the Denon DBT-1713UD with the Denon AVR-X3000 (+ Q Acoustics speakers / sub). The Marantz SR5008 was discounted because it can't deal with the DSD signal for SACDs. Unfortunately, just as one or two people had suggested, the audio quality for music was severely...

Thanks for the additional info and suggestions bigboss & Leeps. The advice about receiver v disc player is helpful. The budget won't stretch to the Aventage range for the AV receiver but the cheap disc player route does bring a couple of other AV receivers within financial range and opens up...

Hi Jonathan - thanks for the welcome. I have some demo time booked in a few days from now and want to have as much info as possible to avoid being railroaded by sales talk. Some suitable discs & USB drives have been put aside to take with me. Enquiries so far have led to the following being...

I currently have a modest 2-channel hi-fi system which I am broadly happy with. However, I have several discs with 5.1 mixes that I want to hear so am now looking for the right equipment to play the surround sound mixes; possibly replacing the current stereo amp + CD player entirely. Music is...