![]() But I've started and am making good progress with at least 350 down at this writing. That is a tedious but not difficult process which could take me many weeks. Truly the lazy man's approach to music playback-combining Tidal and internet radio streaming from the Auralic Aries G2, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, and CD files all controlled from my iPhone while sitting in the listening chair. ![]() No extra remote control is required and the Oppo input selection doesn't even have to be changed from Blu-Ray Drive. The Oppo Media Control app on my iPhone X provides easy-peasy location and playback of all the stored files. If it turns out that I need more than two sticks, I can either plug a third into the front panel USB2 port or add a four-port USB3 hub to one of the rear ports. My Oppo UDP-205 has two USB3 ports in the back just for connecting to stored files on drives. Recent price drops in such sticks now have brought the price of the Patriot Supersonic Rage 2 sticks I chose down to a "reasonable" $150 each. I thus can rip 1,000 GB (a terabyte) of CD data to just two 512 gigabyte USB stick solid-state thumb drives. A thousand CDs in uncompressed form would thus occupy about 650 GB of data. A softer room is a better room, especially when the room, like mine, is only about 11 feet wide, putting my ears at most about 5.5 feet from the side walls.Īlso, by having waited this long, I won't even have to add a computer to my audio system or use a LAN, ethernet, USB cables, Wi-Fi, or even a portable hard drive with moving parts to access the files.ĬDs average about 650 MB of data each. While CDs in these cabinets provide pretty good diffusion, it's not the same as treating those wall areas with dedicated diffusers, abfusers, or absorbers. ![]() But it finally occurred to me that if I ripped my CDs to files, I could probably store or even donate the CDs and one or both of the Davidson-Whitehall Store-a-Disc solid natural cherry CD cabinets that I have in my small dedicated-to-audio-listening-room converted bedroom. It's not that I hoped to get much better sound this way than the Tidal equivalent. I know, I know-I'm 10 or 20 years behind the times on this. I finally decided to rip my 1,000+ CDs to files.
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