Experience with Mach2 Music Server?

If I already have an 1 TB external hard drive with 2000 Cd's, will the Mach 2 work with this hard drive?
Or do I have to re-rip again?

Thanks for the info Tooter.

I noticed John Kenny suggests an attenuator for use with the HiFace, and I wonder if this is in response to the tipped up presentation you heard in the high frequencies?

What DAC are you using?

For USB to S/PDIF, you might also consider Empirical Audio's Off Ramp.

Bryon

Bryon, I considered that.

It's likely the USB>BNC adapter (or USB>spdif adapter) will not be a long term item. I can see at some point moving to a USB DAC, so for the present, I'm not allocating much money on SOTA USB conversion, which is more the goal of the OffRamp.

My goal at present is to keep the cost down.

Ozzy,

The short answer is yes, assumming the 1 TB drive is either USB or Firewire, and you ripped to a popular music format.

The Mach2 will work with USB or Firewire drives. We recommend that you keep the drive and DAC on seperate interfaces (1 on USB, the other on Firewire).

We setup iTunes and Play which play most of the popular formats, so you shouldn't have to re-rip your music.

Darrell
www.mach2music.com