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    Would be big enough for your current music Tony, but I’d go at keast 2Tb to futureproof it.
    Wouldnt go down the road of usb external hard drives, introduces many potential issues.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wee tee cee View Post
    Im wondering if the zen mini with a 1tb would fit the bill for me.

    I could run it off a linear supply or battery....any thoughts?
    Yeah borrow my rPi setup

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    NAS drive, Chromecast Audio, Bubble UPNP or other casting app.
    One of these days... I'm going to cut you into little pieces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RichB View Post
    NAS drive, Chromecast Audio, Bubble UPNP or other casting app.
    I've tried the CCA, great little device but audio quality ( into DAC ) was lacking compared to the rPi/Allo Boss and way behind my SoTm sms200.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeyb View Post
    Yeah borrow my rPi setup
    Has it got any John Martyn on it?

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    Im a computer daftee-need plug and play solution!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wee tee cee View Post
    They aint cheap but you do tend to pay for what you get.

    They have really done theyre home work to make the thing as quiet and user friendly as possible,,,when compared to a mac its pretty good IMHO
    You can pick them up reasonably cheap SH, there was one on AV forums last week for £350, the mini one with 2TB. I think people buy them, rip their CDs then copy the drive and flog the Zens which makes sense.

    I've been thinking about doing something similar as I have looked a flogging off mine and my son's CDs to Music Magpie who pay buttons for them but you can flog most of them to MM and they pay the postage but we're talking £12 CDs for about 10p here so it would make sense to buy one of those ZEN things or similar rip the CDs then flog the CDS (not strictly legal I know but there ye go).

    Think we've got well over 100 CDs and most of my son's are pretty much 'out there' and very little value in them cause they're so 'far out man' but it would be a shame to lose them for ever however he is 29 now and bought most of them in his teenage years and never listens to them now (think he uses Apple music).

    There's also this which is expensive

    https://www.richersounds.com/bluesound-vault-2.html

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    you tried audirvana yet?
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    you tried audirvana yet?
    Me? No don't even know what that is

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    Quote Originally Posted by twotone View Post
    Me? No don't even know what that is
    no not you tony; well not directly, but was meaning tony
    certainly lifted my pc onto a new plain.
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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