Hypnotoad;206025 Wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to rip all of my CDs, put them on an external hard drive and get > a Transporter (which I would operate from my MacBook Pro). > > I'm then thinking about using the Transporter to directly feed the > PrimaLuna Monoblocks (Prologue 6 or 7). Then, from this, drive Gallo > Reference 3.1. Total cost of the system is around $7500 (with the > Transporter). > > Does this sound like a good set up? I figure I could later upgrade the > system by buying a good pre-amp, the Gallo amp (which effectively adds > a sub-woofer to the Gallo's), a good stand, etc. Do you think there > would be a better way to spend $7500 on music equipment? > >
Some recommendations for your consideration based on my own experiences (I have these Gallo speakers, by the way, and their sound is gorgeous. I used a Velodyne sub and am not sure adding the Gallo amp to boost their low end will get me much): Seriously think about getting a NAS for storing your music. It has a number of advantages, like operating when my workstation is off, providing higher availability in the event of a disk problem, letting me expand my storage very simply, providing other functions like print server, data backups, file shares, etc. I use a NAS (Infrant ReadyNAS+) and built an essentially silent racked box for my media server. I can swap out the box (or my workstation) without having to deal with a terabyte or more of stored media, and put the NAS anywhere I want. Second suggestion is to build/buy a headless, silent, dedicated Linux-based media server to run Slimserver. This can go in your equipment rack, in your basement, or anywhere you want. Having one uncomplicates having something running on your workstation that can interact (interfere?) with your other activities (game-playing, spreadsheeting, etc.). Slimserver is usually well-behaved, but I tend to believe in isolating dedicated functions whenever possible (and affordable). The other driver to do this is that frankly Slimserver runs better and more efficiently under Linux than Windows, for whatever reason. A Linux-based Slimserver will whomp the Windows version when it comes to any database-utilizing function, like library scans, and Windows has so many things going on (compared to Linux) that there should be many fewer incidents with L than W. I use the free NX client/server application to control my Slim media server from any workstation/laptop in the house. Very easy to use. My $.02... -- Balthazar_B ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35766 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
