Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-22 Thread Timo Boettcher
I am in the finishing steps of building something similar myself. * Nick Lidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several flavors, one of which caught my attention immediately: The ALIX 3c2 (http://www.pcengines.ch/index.htm). A 500Mhz AMD Geode CPU (fanless), 256MB RAM, 2 USB ports, 1

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Timo Boettcher wrote: Why did you use the 3c2 that is intended as a router, but not the 1c [1]? It has vga, network, usb, and even sound onboard (spdif, too, if you are willing to build an adapter yourself [2]). Be careful with the PCI-slot of the alix1c though, it doesn't provide +12V/-12V, so

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-22 Thread gary turner
Nick Lidakis wrote:snip I'm glad I went with the ALIX. Not only does my Class A amplifier consume 300 watts at the outlet no matter what the volume, but Con Edison in New York is raising their electric rates by %22 soon. It's a little late now, but why would you choose a class A amp over a

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
gary turner wrote: It's a little late now, but why would you choose a class A amp over a class B or AB push-pull amp? Input to the finals approaches zero in class B with no input signal. Back in the day, when I had more of a clue about these things, I found the B or more usually the AB

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Jochen Schulz on 21/07/08 06:35, wrote: Nick Lidakis: I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server since early last year for my dedicated listening room. There were several ready to go retail (Sonos, Slim Devices, McIntosh, etc.) I don't know whether it suits

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: I use mt-daapd but it snips the last 2 seconds off the end of every song. I haven't seen that behaviour yet. It may be a bug in the package in etch, I am using the latest build fireflymediaserver.org. What does the Soundbridge do? It's nothing but a client for audio streaming.

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 15:37:00, Nick Lidakis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: - Mark it [OT] and post away! Thanks... Just thought someone could benefit from this application, or I could receive some constructive criticism on some of choices I had made. I would only like to give my setup as

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nick Lidakis: I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server since early last year for my dedicated listening room. There were several ready to go retail (Sonos, Slim Devices, McIntosh, etc.) I don't know whether it suits audiophile needs, but this is my setup:

OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-19 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: - Mark it [OT] and post away! Thanks... Just thought someone could benefit from this application, or I could receive some constructive criticism on some of choices I had made. I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server since early last year