Want to rip my CD collection to a NAS and play through Sonos Connect. Need advice
https://www.amazon.com/Cocktail-Audio-Ripper-Server-Streamer/dp/B00UJMUZUY/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&... I recommend Cocktail Audio X12 which I had used for 3 and half years with no problem. It rips and store CD in HDD. If you insert 2T HDD it will be enough for more than 2000 CD. |
You can get a PC laptop for around $600 with 1Tbyte drive in it from Costco. You can rip of your files to FLAC or wav to this disk, using dbpoweramp. You can run the Connect to a Synchro-Mesh reclocker to reduce the jitter to 7psec. Here are the before and after jitter plots: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154310.0 The Synchro-Mesh connects to your DAC with a second cable. I highly recommend using good BNC cables like Empirical Audio Standard BNC for $275. You will have a world-class digital source for around $1900 for Sonos Connect, Synchro-Mesh, BNC cable and Laptop. This will outperform ANY transport or server you can buy. It will also give you another personal computer to use for other things. Steve N. Empirical Audio |
You can use your wife's USB ports with a USB CD-ROM drive to rip, and if that computer will be on all the time then ripping to an internal or external hard disk and sharing the files from that computer using SMB should work. If you don't want to depend on your wife's computer running all the time, then a NAS is convenient. Synology and QNAP are popular NAS brands, and they have some compact relatively inexpensive units. In that case, use your wife's computer with a USB CD-ROM drive to rip onto the NAS file share, and then access the same file share from Sonos. This way you just leave the NAS running all the time, independent of whatever work your wife needs to do on her computer. |
Thanks nekoaudio, I think I was making things more difficult than they needed to be. I ended up getting a USB hub and a 4TB external HDD. Using iTunes to rip to the drive using Apple Lossless. Added the new drive to Sonos and I am making progress. This is going to take a long time :) Thanks to everybody who replied. Eric |
