mpower9;533513 Wrote: > 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.
Your post leads me to more questions then answers. How much are you willing to spend? How often do you listen to music? Are you interested in setting up a two channel dedicated listening system? How big is your listening room/area? Doing it simple, I would get a pair of Audio Engine A5s to go with a Touch. Rip the vinyl to digital, put the LP and CD rips on a USB drive and be happy. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77200 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
