a lot of advice will be coming at you, and a lot of it here is good. money doesn't seem to be an issue, so why not buy a duet, and try it out? my guess is you'll love it. and from there, you can get more SBRs, SBs, transports, whatever.
when i give advice to people, i like to try to figure out HOW they will use the music. if they are an audiophile, i tell them go flac. if they want convenience, i tell them go mp3. one thing i always stress is that i hate itunes. i wonder if you're now tied into it due to DRM concerns. i would never trust ANY music from apple, and i hate the way itunes does things, not just organizationally, but to the music itself. in my case, i play it by ear, so to speak. i can't tell a CD from a 256kbps mp3, and so i simply rip all my CDs myself, and that way i know exactly what i got, where it came from, and what process was used to make the mp3. (i have some downloads, but i archive them separately) at some future point, i might archive some fave material in flac, but i don't find it necessary to do so at the moment. so, i suggest you get EAC or dbpoweramp (google em) make some secure rips in FLAC (since you're an audiophile and money is no problem) and then play them back using SC over your Duet. my guess is you will love what you hear. you can them compare your "control group" of self made rips to all your other stuff, and decide where to go from there. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55712 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
