Audio from home PC to Pioneer SC-LX72

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I've recently started streaming music from my home PC via the Home Media Gallery feature on my 'LX72 and the difference in sound quality between that and my Meridian 200/203 CD player is remarkable.

The streamed sound has so much more depth and feeling to it compared to the CD player. I know that the Meridian is old now but it was an expensive player in it's day; also the cableing from the CD player is about £200 of QED whereas the computer is linked with a ten metre ethernet wire from Maplin.

Sorry for the rambling but my question is...

Would a brand new CD player in the £1500 to £2000 range (probably another Meridian) be a better bet than a dedicated music server? Any comments or suggestions would be very welcome.

 

[Anonymous]

A music server won't get you an increase in quality necessarily: it all depends on the format you're ripping in on your PC. Once the file is ripped, it doesn't matter whether you serve that from a PC, NAS or dedicated server, its all just a string of bits.

 

[michael hoy]

Hi,

I currently stream my music from a HP server running Vortexbox (Linux based software), it rips the CD for you to FLAC and will also convert the FLAC to MP3 at the same time.

I have to say the quality is very good and has saved me buying a CD player, the LX72 will play the FLAC file without any problems.

 

[Anonymous]

My LX72 doesnt list my songs that are in Flac format. I have à few mp3s and some wavs, they list and play fine. Any ideas why this is and how to solve it?