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I did look at the Wadia 27ix and was drooling until I saw the price. For $9,000(!!) I can use my PC as a DSP and massage the signal to bliss myself! I've decided that my price limit on a quality DAC is around $3500 (I might go as high as $4000 but it better be ****ing perfect!). Anything less than that I'll get a lot of storage and a good 24/192 sound card and do the data processing myself.
Right now the APE option looks the most intresting except for the price of DASD that size (today, in 2 years it's a different story). The otehr problem I have with APE files is I really wish they would have some system that would encapsulate the cue sheet into the .ape file so I wouldn't have to jerk around with the .apl files. They shoudl at *least* make the .apl files so they don't have to reside in the same directory as the ape file. This way I don't have to clutter up a single directory with 15 .apl files (which I'm ok with), one .ape file and another .cue file that generated the whole mess.. If the APL could take a filename and path (and maybe it can but I can't figure out how) so I can store the .ape and .cue fiels somewhere else it would be much better, IMHO.
I do agree that the Monkey Audio files should sound better than a transport source... Modern hard disks just aren't prone to time-consumming error correction. Once you get a solid rip with EAC it's there and the bits aren't going to change based on the lunar cycle in relation to the temperature and humidty of the day. If you push those bits straight out of an S/PDIF output without touching them (*cough* SB Live!) and delver them to a quality DAC that reclocks or does something to reduce jitter to practically nothingI think you have just blown away (or at least matched) the most expensive, highest quality transport in existance.
The way it's looking this may be the direction I'll be going. If I do this though I will absolutly require that single disc transport so I don't have to fart around with ripping and encodding when I get home from the CD store. I tend to do that in batches anyhow. I fifure I have about 50 or so discs that are in the heavest rotation so that's only, what, about 20 GB? I have at least 30GB of unused storage laying around here.
Plus I have a DLT VI drive around here too that can store 35GB per tape. That should do well enough to start holding the encoded CDs until the DASD catches up.
BTW, RAID-0 is stripping. Basically you would take two drives of the same capacity and join them as one logical drive of double that capicty and load balance read and write operations between the two. It's fast as hell but offers no redundancy so the RAID term is a bit of a misnomer with RAID-0. Seeing how it's just audio and I have the original CDs plus I could easily make DLT backups the liklihood of a failure means nothing more to me than some lost time restoring from tape and re-ripping those that were not backed-up.
Hmm, if my numbers above are right, 500 discs would be about 200GB, a number *easily* acheivable with a pair of ATAPI drives these days.
(Math isn't my strong point so help me out here... Figure 500 MB per average CD, figure Monkey's Audio will take that day at *least* 20% (usually more) so that's 400 MB / CD. 400 MB * 500 CDs equals about 200 GB with some serious margin of error).
If this is the case the changer may just be a dumb idea after all as I could get nearly infinite capacity for about the same price as 2 quality mega changers and I wouldn't have to deal with their mediocre transports. Plus I could always throw the stuff I listen to the most on a USB hard drive and have it at work with a USB->S/PDIF output and throw that into a reasonable DAC. This would give me a *great* setup at home with a very good setup at work and still keeping most all of my music handy (which is a feature I just love about the PJB100).
| Originally posted by kelly And yeah, you can definitely do better with any of that stuff if you spend more money. If you end up with the 27ix and a multi-terrabyte server with all your discs encoded, I'm definitely going to be green with envy. |
I did look at the Wadia 27ix and was drooling until I saw the price. For $9,000(!!) I can use my PC as a DSP and massage the signal to bliss myself! I've decided that my price limit on a quality DAC is around $3500 (I might go as high as $4000 but it better be ****ing perfect!). Anything less than that I'll get a lot of storage and a good 24/192 sound card and do the data processing myself.
Right now the APE option looks the most intresting except for the price of DASD that size (today, in 2 years it's a different story). The otehr problem I have with APE files is I really wish they would have some system that would encapsulate the cue sheet into the .ape file so I wouldn't have to jerk around with the .apl files. They shoudl at *least* make the .apl files so they don't have to reside in the same directory as the ape file. This way I don't have to clutter up a single directory with 15 .apl files (which I'm ok with), one .ape file and another .cue file that generated the whole mess.. If the APL could take a filename and path (and maybe it can but I can't figure out how) so I can store the .ape and .cue fiels somewhere else it would be much better, IMHO.
I do agree that the Monkey Audio files should sound better than a transport source... Modern hard disks just aren't prone to time-consumming error correction. Once you get a solid rip with EAC it's there and the bits aren't going to change based on the lunar cycle in relation to the temperature and humidty of the day. If you push those bits straight out of an S/PDIF output without touching them (*cough* SB Live!) and delver them to a quality DAC that reclocks or does something to reduce jitter to practically nothingI think you have just blown away (or at least matched) the most expensive, highest quality transport in existance.
The way it's looking this may be the direction I'll be going. If I do this though I will absolutly require that single disc transport so I don't have to fart around with ripping and encodding when I get home from the CD store. I tend to do that in batches anyhow. I fifure I have about 50 or so discs that are in the heavest rotation so that's only, what, about 20 GB? I have at least 30GB of unused storage laying around here.
Plus I have a DLT VI drive around here too that can store 35GB per tape. That should do well enough to start holding the encoded CDs until the DASD catches up.
BTW, RAID-0 is stripping. Basically you would take two drives of the same capacity and join them as one logical drive of double that capicty and load balance read and write operations between the two. It's fast as hell but offers no redundancy so the RAID term is a bit of a misnomer with RAID-0. Seeing how it's just audio and I have the original CDs plus I could easily make DLT backups the liklihood of a failure means nothing more to me than some lost time restoring from tape and re-ripping those that were not backed-up.
Hmm, if my numbers above are right, 500 discs would be about 200GB, a number *easily* acheivable with a pair of ATAPI drives these days.
(Math isn't my strong point so help me out here... Figure 500 MB per average CD, figure Monkey's Audio will take that day at *least* 20% (usually more) so that's 400 MB / CD. 400 MB * 500 CDs equals about 200 GB with some serious margin of error).
If this is the case the changer may just be a dumb idea after all as I could get nearly infinite capacity for about the same price as 2 quality mega changers and I wouldn't have to deal with their mediocre transports. Plus I could always throw the stuff I listen to the most on a USB hard drive and have it at work with a USB->S/PDIF output and throw that into a reasonable DAC. This would give me a *great* setup at home with a very good setup at work and still keeping most all of my music handy (which is a feature I just love about the PJB100).
