CD upgrade.

Audiofreak,

I'm sure you've got a great sounding system. What did the the digital portion (Linn DS, NAS, controller, router, etc.) cost and how easy was it to set up? Who is your dealer in AZ?

James,

There are a lot of DACS available and I don't know much about any of them. You could go with a transport and DAC or a player, whatever works for you. Digital is evolving pretty rapidly right now so what I would do is get something that's a nice step up for you but not too expensive. A lot of digital products will be hitting the market in the near future and I think the sound quality and ease of use will be improving and the price declining. I could be wrong though. It has happened before.

Check out HDTracks.com they sell high-res downloads and they seem to be adding a lot of titles lately.

I bought the Akurate DS as demo ($5,500), normally $7,500 I think retail, the NAS w/ 3TB drive was about $350, the iPad was $350. Router is just a std. wireless router I already had setup. You do not even really "need" a separate NAS... you could put the music files on your main PC, however that PC would have to be on in order to access the music when you want to listen. That is why I wanted a "dedicated" NAS setup.

The dealer in AZ is L&M Home Entertainment.

And I agree that a person just wanting to "dabble" with a discless setup and someone not wanting to get rid of their CD collection yet should not drop a ton of coin into it. This setup of mine was to replace my CD player and CD collection of around 750 CD's.

Setup was done by my LINN dealer, but once I saw it done, it is not complicated.

A sensible and civil answer. That wasn't hard was it?

Audiofreak32 - are you on a sales commission from LINN?

No, just a fan. Go troll somewhere else, unless you have a comment about this subject.