w3wilkes wrote: > I'm in a similar situation and ended up with a Onkyo DR-UN7. I had to > get a converter to change the component video out to HDMI. It will not > play BlueRay, only regular DVD's and CD's. The Onkyo by itself will only > run the front speakers, to run the rest of a 5.1 surround would require > a separate power amp, but we don't need surround and I can't remember > the last time we actually watched a DVD at the cabin anyway. I built a > PiCore player with hifiberry DAC+ with analog out to the Onkyo driving > small Bose AM3's. For a pretty small system both my wife and I are very > happy with the sound. I have a full copy of my home library on my laptop > and run LMS on the laptop when I'm at the cabin.
Thanks for sharing. There are a whole lot of features on your Onkyo that I don't need, but the footprint/form factor is similar to what I was thinking - something that would fit on a shelf with a touch next to it. I see them second hand for about a buck and a half $USD. I also built a piCore for the cabin (and one at home as well), but using it as a server, not a player, I put it in an enclosure with a 2TB USB HDD and installed it in the loft with my modem and router. Where you use your laptop for your library, I use a thumb drive and Samba to keep my libraries in sync. I'm thinking of in the future maybe another "travelling" HDD to simplify the sync by just mirroring the drives. What's nice about this arrangement (at least in my brain) is I keep a copy of all of my files that need redundant backup (photos, etc) on both HDD's as well as my home PC and the cabin HDD serves as my "off the premises backup" I appreciate your input, and d6jg's as well. You can find small amps/equipment out there, with prices all over the place, but it's nice to hear from our community "what sounds good". :) Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110553 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
