Hi all there,

I have a wish...
is there something on the market that works like a little home-decoder
and player for compressed audio files (APE, FLAC, OGG, MPEG...) with
good D/A performances, good RCA pre outs, a diplay for managing files,
with no on-board memory.
I mean with USB and Firewire connections, just to plug in your USB flash
memory or hard disk when you are at home and listen.
Maybe with an upgradable firmware, useful when a new audio format comes.

I wish to plug something like this to my preamp at home...

Thanks for your answers.


PS:
To audio equipment designers: why not to put an usb port on preamps and
integrated amps in the future, with on-board decoding capability?

C a r b u r o wrote:

Hi all there,

I have a wish...
is there something on the market that works like a little home-decoder
and player for compressed audio files (APE, FLAC, OGG, MPEG...) with
good D/A performances, good RCA pre outs, a diplay for managing files,
with no on-board memory.
I mean with USB and Firewire connections, just to plug in your USB flash
memory or hard disk when you are at home and listen.
Maybe with an upgradable firmware, useful when a new audio format comes.

I wish to plug something like this to my preamp at home...

Thanks for your answers.

Microsoft would have you buy a PC with Media Center installed.

The problem of dealing with ever changing media formats has almost certainly
been the reason tha no-one's tried this other than to provide CD players (
and DVD ) that play mp3 too. It's eay to install a new codec on a PC but
just try that on a piece of hardware.

Graham

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C a r b u r o wrote:

Hi all there,

I have a wish...
is there something on the market that works like a little home-decoder
and player for compressed audio files (APE, FLAC, OGG, MPEG...) with
good D/A performances, good RCA pre outs, a diplay for managing files,
with no on-board memory.
I mean with USB and Firewire connections, just to plug in your USB flash
memory or hard disk when you are at home and listen.
Maybe with an upgradable firmware, useful when a new audio format comes.

I wish to plug something like this to my preamp at home...

Thanks for your answers.

Microsoft would have you buy a PC with Media Center installed.

The problem of dealing with ever changing media formats has almost
certainly
been the reason tha no-one's tried this other than to provide CD players
(
and DVD ) that play mp3 too. It's eay to install a new codec on a PC but
just try that on a piece of hardware.

Graham

Thanks for your answer, Graham,
I didn't mean a pc, with it's sophistication, unreliability and N O I S E.
I understand what you mean about new codecs, but I think it's not so hard to
develop a linux-embedded system (do you know tomtom go?) easily ugradable,
stable and easy to use.
So hard?

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: C a r b u r o wrote:
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: Hi all there,
:
: I have a wish...
: is there something on the market that works like a little home-decoder
: and player for compressed audio files (APE, FLAC, OGG, MPEG...) with
: good D/A performances, good RCA pre outs, a diplay for managing files,
: with no on-board memory.
: I mean with USB and Firewire connections, just to plug in your USB flash
: memory or hard disk when you are at home and listen.
: Maybe with an upgradable firmware, useful when a new audio format comes.
:
: I wish to plug something like this to my preamp at home...
:
: Thanks for your answers.
:
: Microsoft would have you buy a PC with Media Center installed.
:
: The problem of dealing with ever changing media formats has almost
: certainly
: been the reason tha no-one's tried this other than to provide CD players
: (
: and DVD ) that play mp3 too. It's eay to install a new codec on a PC but
: just try that on a piece of hardware.
:
: Graham
:
: Thanks for your answer, Graham,
: I didn't mean a pc, with it's sophistication, unreliability and N O I S E.
: I understand what you mean about new codecs, but I think it's not so hard to
: develop a linux-embedded system (do you know tomtom go?) easily ugradable,
: stable and easy to use.
: So hard?

it isn't and Graham is wrong - many dvd players, for instance, can be
software upgraded (just start it up with new software on a cd that's inserted)
and frankly, it is the only sensible way to go - the obsolence card has been
played
too many times by the industry - consumers don't buy it anymore ;-)

Rudy

it isn't and Graham is wrong - many dvd players, for instance, can be
software upgraded (just start it up with new software on a cd that's
inserted)
and frankly, it is the only sensible way to go - the obsolence card has
been
played
too many times by the industry - consumers don't buy it anymore ;-)

Very interesting...
Can u suggest some players with this feature?
Thanks.

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:06:36 +0100, "C a r b u r o" wrote:


it isn't and Graham is wrong - many dvd players, for instance, can be
software upgraded (just start it up with new software on a cd that's
inserted)
and frankly, it is the only sensible way to go - the obsolence card has
been
played
too many times by the industry - consumers don't buy it anymore ;-)

Very interesting...
Can u suggest some players with this feature?

I have upgraded two Denon players this way. Downloaded files from the
website, burned CDRs and stuck them in.

Kal