In the five years that ive been into hifi and ive been through a fair few cd players, going from a £50 second hand NAD player all the way up to a £1400 Densen player. however i cant stand allways haveing to change the cd or clean tiny bitts of fluff and grease off of them. the easy answer to this is to buy a music server. however the problem with that is most of the time music servers are so expensive that you could by a cd player for a third of the price that would sound as good if not better. the other answer is to use your current pc as a way of playing and storeing all your music. lots of audiophiles would advice people to stay clear of this soloution since most pc soundcards sound like crap plus all the noisy components in the pc ruin the listening experience.
but i think i can say now with confidence that ive dicovered the solution and without any compromiseses. i came across a website called niveusmedia.com . they where selling on there website a $15,000 media pc called the k2. this media pc used heatsinks to get rid of all its heat without the use of any fans and sported a soundcard with balanced xlr outputs and a signal to noise ratio of 117 db. the case was absolutly gorgeous, made completly from thick cut alumium. it looked like a highend power amp with a little slot to slide your dvds and cds in.
after a bit of searching around with google and a few emails to the company i managed to find out what sound card they where useing and with a little luck i managed to pick one up off ebay. the card is the lynx l22 (£600 rrp by lynxstudios.com). after getting hold of the sound card i managed to find a company that sold completely silent heat sink pc cases (hifiatx.com around £600 with cooling and silent powersupply). after buying all the other components i had spent around £2000 but built the ultimate media machine.
My two grand bought me a completely silent media pc with 7 inch touch screen, balanced xlr audio outputs, hdmi video output with hdcp. it also has enough computing power to handle hd content with ease and so much storage that everyone of my cds is stored uncompresed on the hard drive as well as buckets of hd content. my media pc also sounds so good i sold my £1400 densen cd player without a second thought and have yet to see a highend dvd player that looks better than it.
i only post this thread because the huge effect building this pc has had on me as hifi enthusiast, i think every one should have one of these in there home. if any one reading this has any questions about it or any sugestions to make my htpc better please post. thanks alot for reading these and sorry it so long.
cheers
ryan
but i think i can say now with confidence that ive dicovered the solution and without any compromiseses. i came across a website called niveusmedia.com . they where selling on there website a $15,000 media pc called the k2. this media pc used heatsinks to get rid of all its heat without the use of any fans and sported a soundcard with balanced xlr outputs and a signal to noise ratio of 117 db. the case was absolutly gorgeous, made completly from thick cut alumium. it looked like a highend power amp with a little slot to slide your dvds and cds in.
after a bit of searching around with google and a few emails to the company i managed to find out what sound card they where useing and with a little luck i managed to pick one up off ebay. the card is the lynx l22 (£600 rrp by lynxstudios.com). after getting hold of the sound card i managed to find a company that sold completely silent heat sink pc cases (hifiatx.com around £600 with cooling and silent powersupply). after buying all the other components i had spent around £2000 but built the ultimate media machine.
My two grand bought me a completely silent media pc with 7 inch touch screen, balanced xlr audio outputs, hdmi video output with hdcp. it also has enough computing power to handle hd content with ease and so much storage that everyone of my cds is stored uncompresed on the hard drive as well as buckets of hd content. my media pc also sounds so good i sold my £1400 densen cd player without a second thought and have yet to see a highend dvd player that looks better than it.
i only post this thread because the huge effect building this pc has had on me as hifi enthusiast, i think every one should have one of these in there home. if any one reading this has any questions about it or any sugestions to make my htpc better please post. thanks alot for reading these and sorry it so long.
cheers
ryan
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