carnival
100+ Head-Fier
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Hello again, Head-fiers! First of all, let me start by apologizing if this is a stupid thing to ask, trying to cure the newbieness bit by bit So I was thinking today about buying a desktop set up eventually when my starving college student budget allows me to do such a thing.
However, I do not have a CD player, nor am I terribly thrilled about the idea of getting one for the reason of not owning physical copies of most CDs I own. (Ripped in lossless from other people's CDs and whatnot.) I didn't want to have to go out and buy a bunch of CDs or burn my entire music library to disks.
So is there an alternative to a CD player? I wondered if USB to RCA was feasible, something like http://www.hilightec.com/productDetail.asp?cid1=3&id=105 run through a DAC + headphone amp, or if that wasn't something ordinarily done.
Secondly, is an iPod LOD to RCA cable is a reasonable thing to do for a full sized amp? I recall seeing some posts in the past about people doing this, and I had doubts about an iPod being able to power a full sized amp. Am I wrong to think that?
Or is the way to go just find a DAC/AMP that has a USB input?
Anyway, thanks for looking, again, forgive me if this is stupid!
Cheers,
carnival
(sorry for the URL dump there, can't figure out how to hyperlink on here.)
However, I do not have a CD player, nor am I terribly thrilled about the idea of getting one for the reason of not owning physical copies of most CDs I own. (Ripped in lossless from other people's CDs and whatnot.) I didn't want to have to go out and buy a bunch of CDs or burn my entire music library to disks.
So is there an alternative to a CD player? I wondered if USB to RCA was feasible, something like http://www.hilightec.com/productDetail.asp?cid1=3&id=105 run through a DAC + headphone amp, or if that wasn't something ordinarily done.
Secondly, is an iPod LOD to RCA cable is a reasonable thing to do for a full sized amp? I recall seeing some posts in the past about people doing this, and I had doubts about an iPod being able to power a full sized amp. Am I wrong to think that?
Or is the way to go just find a DAC/AMP that has a USB input?
Anyway, thanks for looking, again, forgive me if this is stupid!
Cheers,
carnival
(sorry for the URL dump there, can't figure out how to hyperlink on here.)