djantani said:
guys
thanks for your comments and suggestions.
I do have a laptop but don't want to use it to play music. i basically want to contnue to do what i was doing before, ie i go to my hifh and play some music without the need of a laptop, a play station or whatever. I just need a PLAYER. I have a 3 Tb storage drive for mucis and fils and woould like to get whatever i need out of it, stick it onto a memorystick or something and then inthe back of my player which will be connnected to my amp. So I don't want to pay for storage on a portable again, plus i want the payer to stay there, on top of the amp.
In terms of the signal i cannot believe that a 3.5mm stereo jack is as good a connection as a traditional signal cable - the one I have got costs quite a lot of money and you can tell the difference when I plaay my CDs.
Budgetwise I think up to £200 for the right thing assuming I can tell a big differenc compared to connecting my iphone to it, which is what i do now.
thanks
To be honest, there aren't many products of that nature.
You'd be surprised how many people come on the forums asking for a product to fit their highly specific requirements and are shocked that there's nothing out there. To that person it seems obvious that many others would have exactly the same needs and it's an obvious product segment.
As far as my understanding goes, the type of products you are thinking of often tend to have ripping capabilities as well and are very pricey. In terms of what you want to be able to do, really a streamer would be the way to go, if only because the streaming protocols make the management/control/searching of large numbers of files much easier than when you stick a USB drive into something. I really don't think there's anything exactly like what you want. I understand your frustration. I've often thought I'd like something like an iPad to act as the player, but I'd want at least 500 gig of storage (ideally 1tb or more), but the more I think about it, streaming is the better option as it would allow me to uncouple the iDevice from my amp or DAC or whatever and use it as a remote control, so I don't have to get up from my chair.
I've thought about using my FiiO X5 as the player because of the significant memory that can be installed and the fact that I can take a digital output for an offboard DAC if I wanted. If I were starting from zero I'd look at something like a Synology NAS with a USB DAC as my player and my iPhone as the remote control. As it is, I stream Apple Music from my Mac because I needed to get a computer for my home office, so this killed 2 birds with one stone.
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