Pasanda
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My first post in many years...
I finally have enough to afford a half decent hifi set up and am converting a spare bedroom into a games/music room. I have around £4k to spend before my wife starts contacting lawyers. I'm looking for advice on the general approach.
Music will be based around a source of purely server-based digital music - a mixture of high bitrate mp3's and FLAC files. These are all currently stored on my server, parked next to where the hifi will be, and I was assuming there is no reason for moving them off.
Having spent a few week scanning options, it seems my best approach is to use something like a dragonfly DAC (as good as i can afford, but most likely the Red or Black), plugged into the server, connected directly to an amp, which in turn will be connected directly to speakers. I haven't really started looking at either of those last two components, but am probably looking for floorstanders - something like the Monitor Audio Silver 300, just because i have the space and like the look. I don't use Apple stuff and i'm not looking to use a CD player (although i do still have a half decent 20YO marantz in the loft, nor a turntable.
Just for info, i have an old but half decent Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 system for PC gaming audio. I was not planning to merge the music audio and gaming audio together in this room, as the two requirements seem incompatible to me - but i'd be happy to be convinced otherwise.
I have budget of around £4k for the DAC, amp, speakers and connections. There is a Richer sounds very near me in Cardiff if that helps.
Whilst not specifically asking for recommendations on kit - I understand there are too many variables and personal preferences - at this point i was just looking to sanity-check the general approach to getting music from my server to my ears in the simplest and best quality way for the money, using the setup as outlined about. Using the computer as the music selection interface is a little clunky and sure some sort of portable interface, or remote control would be nice. But i can't see how that would work, and could always log onto my server from the couch, using teamviewer remote login.
Thanks in advance.
I finally have enough to afford a half decent hifi set up and am converting a spare bedroom into a games/music room. I have around £4k to spend before my wife starts contacting lawyers. I'm looking for advice on the general approach.
Music will be based around a source of purely server-based digital music - a mixture of high bitrate mp3's and FLAC files. These are all currently stored on my server, parked next to where the hifi will be, and I was assuming there is no reason for moving them off.
Having spent a few week scanning options, it seems my best approach is to use something like a dragonfly DAC (as good as i can afford, but most likely the Red or Black), plugged into the server, connected directly to an amp, which in turn will be connected directly to speakers. I haven't really started looking at either of those last two components, but am probably looking for floorstanders - something like the Monitor Audio Silver 300, just because i have the space and like the look. I don't use Apple stuff and i'm not looking to use a CD player (although i do still have a half decent 20YO marantz in the loft, nor a turntable.
Just for info, i have an old but half decent Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 system for PC gaming audio. I was not planning to merge the music audio and gaming audio together in this room, as the two requirements seem incompatible to me - but i'd be happy to be convinced otherwise.
I have budget of around £4k for the DAC, amp, speakers and connections. There is a Richer sounds very near me in Cardiff if that helps.
Whilst not specifically asking for recommendations on kit - I understand there are too many variables and personal preferences - at this point i was just looking to sanity-check the general approach to getting music from my server to my ears in the simplest and best quality way for the money, using the setup as outlined about. Using the computer as the music selection interface is a little clunky and sure some sort of portable interface, or remote control would be nice. But i can't see how that would work, and could always log onto my server from the couch, using teamviewer remote login.
Thanks in advance.