Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is your personal philosophy as an audiophile?

2013-08-06 Thread RonM
satkinsn wrote: Well, I don't want to drag the thread too far afield, but let me ask you guys (and whoever else wants to play) about workflow and V'box hardware. When I ran it I just grabbed an old Dell that was a 3 gig something or the other (probably a P4) and let it chug away in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is your personal philosophy as an audiophile?

2013-08-06 Thread satkinsn
Ron - I like your answer, though I'm starting to get the point that moving to file-based playback is neither cheap nor without considerable work. Question: what do you use to play back from your fitpc? I assume some variety of Squeezebox Server/Logitech Media Server/whatever it's currently

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is your personal philosophy as an audiophile?

2013-08-06 Thread aubuti
If cost is a big consideration then go ahead and use your Win8 laptop or an old, re-purposed computer you may have lying around like you did before. You already have the Squeezeboxes, right? So the financial cost can be as low as zero. Ripping and tagging CDs does take time. But once you start