Just thought i would post my experience here and share with everyone.... I purchased my Squeezebox about a month ago and hooked it up to my single, older (5 years) PC wireless to a bedroom system. I immediatly had two problems:
1. years of .mp3 collecting was worthless when amplified over a mid-quality (Naim) amplifier and speakers. 2. as many here have reported, i would get hitching, studdering, poor remote response and lost connections. It worked fine for the first week, then these problems occured. I realized a single purchase would solve both these issues as well as provide an expandable/flexible storage option. I knew i wanted NAS device so after much research and a recommendation from an IT professional buddy, i went with the Infrant ReadyNAS+ http://www.infrant.com/wiki/index.php/Home and a single 750gb drive. It comes with slimserver installed. Dream to setup, i just slapped a drive in, pluged it to my PC (Cat 6 gigabit ethernet of course). I began re-ripping all my CDs to .flac (with Audio Converter Studio http://www.maniactools.com/soft/converter/index.shtml?Ref=5.4&b=5400 ) and BAM! It has been working SOLID, like a dream for 2 weeks straight! No resets or dropped connections, no hitching etc. The .flac sounds like heaven even compared to high bitrate .mp3 (as has been discussed on these forums also). Last weekend i picked up another 750gb, so now i have full redundancy. So nice to feel my data (music only) is backed up! The system seems pretty expandable. Future plans: - outboard DAC for even better sound (still researching) - additional 750s, of course. That ReadyNAS maxes out at ~3T but you can chain them, or eventually they will probably have firmware update for 4x 1T drives. - more squeezeboxes around the house! (it will be interesting to see if i run into 8011.g bandwidth issues piping those fat .flacs to more than 1 squeezebox simultanious). I realy can't run ethernet cable everywhere, so i'm looking into the 'ethernet-over-power' solution if this becomes necesssary. Anyway, enough ramblings. I'm still a newbie, but figured those even newer might appreciate hearing about my path and current EXTREME happiness with the product and it's deployment environment. ohyeah, Bit Torrent is the greatest thing since .html :) cheers! -jason -- jsunandmax ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jsunandmax's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10411 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33415 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
