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As I posted on another thread I'm looking at some high-end sources but they all have a fairly large flaw; they are single disc players.
All of the ones I'm considering though have digital inputs (Cary 306/200 is on the top of my must-hear list).
With this in-mind I would like an uber-CD Changer to use a a transport. The first requirement might seriously blow me out of the water though as it *must* support a *minimum* of 500 discs!! More would actually be better.
All I can really find are 400 disc changers.
Other features that would be nice include CD-Text. A coax digital output is preferable but, again, I may have a hard time finding this.
One option I have considered just throws-out the changer all together but offers nearly infinite expansion; using a computer with some serious DASD (disk storage) as the 'transport' and feed the digital output of a decent soundcard (say one of m-audio's offerings) into the uber-source I'm looking into.
I would use winamp with Monkey's audio to compress everything though which would only mean about 1.2TB of storage to get 500 average discs online. I know it sounds like a lot but it isn't (I've installed a SAN that had 4 TB of raw storage online and I currently support a tabe library (think cd changers for DLT tapes) that has about 3.5 TB online. Larger ATAPI drives these days are around 120 GB so I would only need 10 of them. Of course this leads me to another product that likly doesn't exist; a 10-channel ATA controller that supports RAID-0.
The next step is to look at SCSI, but that would likly price me right out of my house and the fact is I don't need that kind of performance. This would though be MUCH easier to manage than an ATA solution as a single wide scsi bus can support 15 device IDs (and each of those with at least 8 LUNs which is a LOT of devices) whereas the IDE only supports a max of two per channel with a *serious* performance penalty for even that.
The last option is to use more reasonable storage options and encode with Lame like I currently do on my portable jukebox and use Winamp with MAD. If I go this route though I'm not extracting all of the goodness that can be had out of the DAC in the CDP though it would likly still satisfy the whole reason I'm getting the high-end CDP in the first place. but then there is an unknown of what other flaws it will expose.
I'd like, if at all possible to keep the price on this thing under $1000 with a $1500 limit at the absolute max. Beyond that price I'll just go the MP3 route for casual listening and drop-in CDRs by-hand for the more intensive sessions.
Maybe someone has some other ideas or a pointer to a massive DIY robotic CD changer option thus allowing me to use the transport in the CDP as it was intended.
How is it that no one makes products for people like me?
All of the ones I'm considering though have digital inputs (Cary 306/200 is on the top of my must-hear list).
With this in-mind I would like an uber-CD Changer to use a a transport. The first requirement might seriously blow me out of the water though as it *must* support a *minimum* of 500 discs!! More would actually be better.
All I can really find are 400 disc changers.
Other features that would be nice include CD-Text. A coax digital output is preferable but, again, I may have a hard time finding this.
One option I have considered just throws-out the changer all together but offers nearly infinite expansion; using a computer with some serious DASD (disk storage) as the 'transport' and feed the digital output of a decent soundcard (say one of m-audio's offerings) into the uber-source I'm looking into.
I would use winamp with Monkey's audio to compress everything though which would only mean about 1.2TB of storage to get 500 average discs online. I know it sounds like a lot but it isn't (I've installed a SAN that had 4 TB of raw storage online and I currently support a tabe library (think cd changers for DLT tapes) that has about 3.5 TB online. Larger ATAPI drives these days are around 120 GB so I would only need 10 of them. Of course this leads me to another product that likly doesn't exist; a 10-channel ATA controller that supports RAID-0.
The next step is to look at SCSI, but that would likly price me right out of my house and the fact is I don't need that kind of performance. This would though be MUCH easier to manage than an ATA solution as a single wide scsi bus can support 15 device IDs (and each of those with at least 8 LUNs which is a LOT of devices) whereas the IDE only supports a max of two per channel with a *serious* performance penalty for even that.
The last option is to use more reasonable storage options and encode with Lame like I currently do on my portable jukebox and use Winamp with MAD. If I go this route though I'm not extracting all of the goodness that can be had out of the DAC in the CDP though it would likly still satisfy the whole reason I'm getting the high-end CDP in the first place. but then there is an unknown of what other flaws it will expose.
I'd like, if at all possible to keep the price on this thing under $1000 with a $1500 limit at the absolute max. Beyond that price I'll just go the MP3 route for casual listening and drop-in CDRs by-hand for the more intensive sessions.
Maybe someone has some other ideas or a pointer to a massive DIY robotic CD changer option thus allowing me to use the transport in the CDP as it was intended.
How is it that no one makes products for people like me?