I'm not able to have a dedicated music room, so I'm upgrading the HT system in our great room with audiophile-quality equipment to get the best I can. The new speakers will be a pair of Martin Logan Summits driven by a Sunfire TGA-7400 amp. There will also be a Sunfire TGP-5 for home theater processing (even though when I listen to music I'll just use 2-channel).
I'm now looking at music sources for this system. I was originally considering either a good quality CD/SACD and/or DVD-A player, or a transport with a good quality DAC. However, while doing all of the research I ran across (as I'm sure you've guessed) the Squeezebox and Transporter. I'm in the computer industry and have a gigabit home LAN and home-grown terabyte server, so this is very attractive to me. The question of course is can I get good enough quality from whatever I put together, all the while trying to stay under $2.5k or so if I can (the MLs and Sunfires did a real number on my pocketbook :D ) I've currently narrowed the configurations to the following: 1) Squeezebox to a to-be-determined DAC. 2) Transporter. 3) Squeezebox to the TGP-5. The first two are fairly standard within this form, I'm just not certain I found anyone using them on Martin Logans, and Summits in particular. The third option is in case the TGP-5 processes the digital stream as good as a separate DAC at the price limit I'm considering. (Its expensive enough to have the necessary quality, its just that I'm afraid it much more oriented toward HT processing than 2-channel.) Of course, my final choice will be made by listening to all of them in one form or another once I have the rest of the system put together. I'm just hoping for some quality input about this. Finally, as a newbie I'd like to say thanks to the folks on this forum. I've been very impressed with the knowledge and general helpfulness that is provided. -- kcl Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kcl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10309 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32911 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
