wulbert
pfm Member
Listening to the relative quality of Spotify vs a purchased & downloaded AIFF file of the same album (David Darling's Prayer for Compassion) has convinced me that I prefer to own higher quality music files, rather than rent access. I had been planning to get back into CD's but having laid the system out, I'm surprised at how much room the CD player takes up. So, I'm thinking of building up my music collection on some kind of drive so that I can listen to decent quality files whenever I want, without paying anyone any more money ( other than leccy).
I'd really rather not spend more than a few hundred but I am kind of intrigued by the Zen Mini Mk3. Seen it combined with the (essential?) LPSU for about £1,400. It would mean that I could rip and store my fave CD's as well as stream to discover new music (not sure if the Zen does Spotify?) and have a vault of my high-quality file purchases. I am attracted by the idea of paying artists directly for new music via Bandcamp and have just bought a few things to try out. (Next up this afternoon, comparing WAV to AIFF to see if I can hear any difference)
Any advice for someone new to storing/playing music files in this way? Pit falls, things to avoid, flaws in my thinking etc?
I am definitely not into fannying about with Raspberry Pi s and all that. I like simple boxes that just do stuff, without any dialogue.
I'd really rather not spend more than a few hundred but I am kind of intrigued by the Zen Mini Mk3. Seen it combined with the (essential?) LPSU for about £1,400. It would mean that I could rip and store my fave CD's as well as stream to discover new music (not sure if the Zen does Spotify?) and have a vault of my high-quality file purchases. I am attracted by the idea of paying artists directly for new music via Bandcamp and have just bought a few things to try out. (Next up this afternoon, comparing WAV to AIFF to see if I can hear any difference)
Any advice for someone new to storing/playing music files in this way? Pit falls, things to avoid, flaws in my thinking etc?
I am definitely not into fannying about with Raspberry Pi s and all that. I like simple boxes that just do stuff, without any dialogue.