Hi everyone ! Many times a visitor, but needed to create an account to get some help on an issue on hand.
My father has had set of B&W 703's (or 704's - don't remember, don't matter), and a Musical Fidelity M6i to drive them - sitting in his living room for years now. I want to finally see him enjoying them. If I can do it for the Christmas - it would be the perfect gift.
PROBLEM. The absolute one and only source of music for him is going to be FLACs or high-bitrate MP3s.
The M6i has an internal DAC, so that part is covered. I need to figure out of feeding the M6i, and a way to control the playback remotely.
My train of thought - have either a mini laptop, a tablet, an MP3 player or some other type of tech connected to the M6i. Store all the music on that piece of tech and find a way to control the player on it remotely. Perfectly - another tablet.
Whatever is connected to the M6i must be able to
a) actually utilise the internal DAC in the M6i instead of feeding a resampled bit-stream. Something like an USB Audio Player PRO if it's an android device, or the ability to use an external sound-card if it's a windows device. Not even going to entertain any Apple/iOS options - we don't do that here.
b) Have a large internal storage to stor all the FLACs, OR way to expand/replace internal storage via a memory card or installing a bigger capacity HDD/SSD , OR have an available USB port (other than the charging one) to feed off eiher an USB stick or other form of external storage.
Second piece of the puzzle - a way to control the playback, select the playlist etc. An option is to just use my dad's android phone, but I would prefer it to be another dedicated device. Ie - a tablet running either Win or Android. There must be some apps that allow you to control another device, or at least remotely control an app running on another device. In this case - a music player app, such as Foobar or similar.
I know this is a bit of a long-winded post but.. may I ask for an advice on how to best approach this? I need this to be on a low-budget. 200-300 EUR wold be the absolute maximum that I can afford to spend on this. Buying used is absolutely an option. But most importantly - are there any hidden issues that are not immeditaly obvious, but people tend to run into when doing this? Can anyone recommend any specific approaches, in terms of what pieces of software to use to make all of this work?
I did attempt searching for topics on this but with no luck. If there are any - by all means please do direct me straight there.
Cheers!
My father has had set of B&W 703's (or 704's - don't remember, don't matter), and a Musical Fidelity M6i to drive them - sitting in his living room for years now. I want to finally see him enjoying them. If I can do it for the Christmas - it would be the perfect gift.
PROBLEM. The absolute one and only source of music for him is going to be FLACs or high-bitrate MP3s.
The M6i has an internal DAC, so that part is covered. I need to figure out of feeding the M6i, and a way to control the playback remotely.
My train of thought - have either a mini laptop, a tablet, an MP3 player or some other type of tech connected to the M6i. Store all the music on that piece of tech and find a way to control the player on it remotely. Perfectly - another tablet.
Whatever is connected to the M6i must be able to
a) actually utilise the internal DAC in the M6i instead of feeding a resampled bit-stream. Something like an USB Audio Player PRO if it's an android device, or the ability to use an external sound-card if it's a windows device. Not even going to entertain any Apple/iOS options - we don't do that here.
b) Have a large internal storage to stor all the FLACs, OR way to expand/replace internal storage via a memory card or installing a bigger capacity HDD/SSD , OR have an available USB port (other than the charging one) to feed off eiher an USB stick or other form of external storage.
Second piece of the puzzle - a way to control the playback, select the playlist etc. An option is to just use my dad's android phone, but I would prefer it to be another dedicated device. Ie - a tablet running either Win or Android. There must be some apps that allow you to control another device, or at least remotely control an app running on another device. In this case - a music player app, such as Foobar or similar.
I know this is a bit of a long-winded post but.. may I ask for an advice on how to best approach this? I need this to be on a low-budget. 200-300 EUR wold be the absolute maximum that I can afford to spend on this. Buying used is absolutely an option. But most importantly - are there any hidden issues that are not immeditaly obvious, but people tend to run into when doing this? Can anyone recommend any specific approaches, in terms of what pieces of software to use to make all of this work?
I did attempt searching for topics on this but with no luck. If there are any - by all means please do direct me straight there.
Cheers!
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