I am planning to get a Touch and am trying to figure out what kind of set up to use it with.
Currently I have a over 20 year-old Sony bookshelf stero that is getting rather cranky. The tape player and the CD player have some eccentricities. I am trying to figure out what I will need for a system once I get my Touch. Do I want to keep what I have and just plug the Touch into the AUX port of the existing system? Do I want to get a pair of good powered speakers and get rid of the current system altogether and just have the Touch attached directly. I am not an audiophile. I don't play ear-bleed music or thumpa-dumpa base. I have a very small CD collection (compared to some of the collections mentioned in these Forums) and I am planning to rip them to a USB drive to use with the Touch. At the moment I have hardly any digital music files. I do have a lot of vinyl records and cassetts. I have a gismo (ARTsessiories USB Phono Plus) which I am using to (ever so slowly) transfer my collection into digital format. In the mean time, can I use the USB connection of the gizmo to play the vinyl directly on the Touch or will the lack of a file system on the record or cassette prevent the Touch from playing it? Once or twice a year all the relatives descend on me for the holidays and we use the DVD player on my laptop to watch movies on my 21" monitor (I don't have TV) and they like to plug the sound into the hifi. Would I be able to run it through the Touch if I got rid of the hifi? As you can see from my questions, I am still a noob when it comes to digital sound. (I have been sucked into this because I needed a new clock radio and impulse bought a Squeezbox Radio--I love it. Who knew. The only thing I have done with digital sound before is listen to podcasts and audio books and record some hearings on my mp3 player.) Thanks for your help. -- mpower9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mpower9's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33930 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77200 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
