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Hey, for the $100ish the t-amp cost's, if it does'nt work out to be a good amp i can just make a nice little computer setup out of it and get ahold of something thats a little better. No issue. I just want to know what all this hype is about. I for sure want to get that emo cd player. Just stuck in a crossroad, as i have read alot about a squeezebox running flac will sound better then most $1000 down cdp's. I would want proof of this though!
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Well I am looking at computer music server stuff right now as well. I think I will wait for the first of the year when the price on 1.5 to 2 tb hard drives goes down and take my time in choosing which dac to go with. I know I will be using usb for signal transfer since it is simple from my laptop and have heard good things about this kind of setup. Looking at the musiland md-10 dac since it upsamples to 24/192 and can handle anything in between that. Plus I have heard good things about it for the price.
One thing I will say is that there is nothing wrong with having both a good cd player and a music server(pc) in your system. but if you get a good enough dac for your music server you can make it serve double duty with a cd player or transport and it might save you some money. but I dout it since the Emotiva is only 400 bucks and has one hell of a following. Mr. Peabody amongst others has said this player is great for the money and can stand up to players double its price. And seeing the knowledge and components that Mr. Peabody has I would take his opinion as good as gold. I think for now I will get my music server going with a good dac, hook my multi disc player up to it as well and go from there. I might be satisfied with that since I have heard others being very happy with setups like this and since there are dacs out there that take USB, and all digital outputs it should be a no brainer to do. But I do think the future of source music could possibly be a music server since there are so many options and they are very convenient. And you are right about the T-amp. I have heard people using them for computer speaker amps with good results so you probably couldn't go wrong at least trying it. If it doesn't work you could always look for one of the options I mentioned earlier and probably find something somewhat afordable used.
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In case you don't see my thread, the Emotiva stereo preamp is on sale $349.00.
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Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
In case you don't see my thread, the Emotiva stereo preamp is on sale $349.00.
Well darn! If the sale last's over a month that would work out real well! I could squeeze out The $800 ish for the cdp and the pre over a couple months each. So if the sale is still going on I will for sure grab the pre first.
I have never had anything besides dvd players as cdp's before and honestly have no idea what to expect. When I went to look at the B&W 686 and 685's the guy had a TOTL cary cdp running balanced to a TOTL Krell and I honesly never in my live heard something that fantastic! But I know for a long time I could never afford anything, anything that nice sounding. I would put $500 on it if I took the 686's home and ran them on anything in my price range they would not make me happy.
What do you think I am going to gain doing this cdp upgrade. I can here a sonic better on 320kbs mp3's and flac's from my computer then a quality cd out of my dvd player. So I am guessing my dvd player just suck's really bad, as running a pc on a horrible $10 rca cable and no dac it would'nt be that great. Who knows!
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Originally Posted by frenchmon
Know anything about it?
If it sits a little while I could grab it if its really that good of a deal. Doubt he would go down on the price though.
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