Jeff49
Novice Member
This will be a very basic question for many of you, but for context, in my college era years, 8 track players and cassette tape players were the latest tech in music listening. After many years without a component hifi stereo system, I have decided to get back in the game. I currently don't have much music stored on my laptop, but am trying to evaluate the importance of buying an integrated amp with usb connections that would allow me to play music which I might choose to store on my computer or a thumb drive in the future. I am not finding many amps with usb connections for less than $1,000, so I am trying to decide if its worth stretching my budget just to get this feature. If I currently listened to music from my laptop it would would make more sense. My question boils down to this - in 2022 with many hi res streaming options, why might I want to store music on a hard drive to play through my system? I will have a turntable to play old vinyl albums and a CD player to play my CD collection. I realize that I may be missing something which is the reason I am posting this questions. Please educate this baby boomer on the subject.
Thanks!
Thanks!