Hi All,
I'm new to the forum and, currently am looking for the best way to play music at home, and am finding myself overwhelmed with options. I found this site when looking at reviews, was impressed with the quality of the reviews, and thought I would give a shot asking for help / recommendations. I feel like I've spent hours over the past few weeks, but haven't gotten very far.
Here are the details:
Format: I have lots of CDs and digital files, mostly FLAC files, though I just bought some DSD files (for CDs, for now, I would be plugging in a sony walkman dis cplayer to the amp, until I could figure out a decent CD player
Desired system: Would like some kind of amplifier / dac / that I can plug a USB hard drive into and actually be able to have some kind of menu to browse through the folders. My family would like it if it had bluetooth connectivity for streaming podcasts, audiobooks from their phones.
Music: Primarily listen to older music: anything from early music, baroque, classical, romantic, 20th century classical (I still like listening to rock, but much less frequently, and would prefer to optimize the system for older music)
Room: I have a large living room, but might eventually move the stereo up to a man-cave in the attic at some point
Budget for this bit tops off at around 1K (trying to put aside other money for speakers, etc.)
Not sure if what I am looking for is unrealistic. So far I haven't been able to find any any integrated amps that I could plug a hard drive into and clearly navigate folders, and playback - this seems to be the biggest hangup at the moment. Maybe I'm trying to find one device to do too many things? I'm figuring nearly any amp is going to allow me to plug in a CD player (and maybe, hopefully have bluetooth for the lo-fi stuff).
As of today I don't have a home audio system, only a sony walkman, plugged into a fiio with Sennheiser PXC550s.
All that said, any thoughts, directions, points of reading would be welcome. Thank you for taking the time.
Emerson
I'm new to the forum and, currently am looking for the best way to play music at home, and am finding myself overwhelmed with options. I found this site when looking at reviews, was impressed with the quality of the reviews, and thought I would give a shot asking for help / recommendations. I feel like I've spent hours over the past few weeks, but haven't gotten very far.
Here are the details:
Format: I have lots of CDs and digital files, mostly FLAC files, though I just bought some DSD files (for CDs, for now, I would be plugging in a sony walkman dis cplayer to the amp, until I could figure out a decent CD player
Desired system: Would like some kind of amplifier / dac / that I can plug a USB hard drive into and actually be able to have some kind of menu to browse through the folders. My family would like it if it had bluetooth connectivity for streaming podcasts, audiobooks from their phones.
Music: Primarily listen to older music: anything from early music, baroque, classical, romantic, 20th century classical (I still like listening to rock, but much less frequently, and would prefer to optimize the system for older music)
Room: I have a large living room, but might eventually move the stereo up to a man-cave in the attic at some point
Budget for this bit tops off at around 1K (trying to put aside other money for speakers, etc.)
Not sure if what I am looking for is unrealistic. So far I haven't been able to find any any integrated amps that I could plug a hard drive into and clearly navigate folders, and playback - this seems to be the biggest hangup at the moment. Maybe I'm trying to find one device to do too many things? I'm figuring nearly any amp is going to allow me to plug in a CD player (and maybe, hopefully have bluetooth for the lo-fi stuff).
As of today I don't have a home audio system, only a sony walkman, plugged into a fiio with Sennheiser PXC550s.
All that said, any thoughts, directions, points of reading would be welcome. Thank you for taking the time.
Emerson
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