Yeah, help me too audio guys.
Marc
location: Columbus, OH
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I'm an IT guy and while I can't diagnose your problem directly from experience (never heard of that one), your symptoms don't really sound like a failing hard drive but I suppose it's possible. I've replaced a ton of drives over the years and from my experience a failing hard drive will almost always start to give it's signals in the form of what I call a death whine. In other words, it will start to make noises that you haven't heard before. If it's doing that than yes, get it backed up as soon as you can and replace it.I have a question for the audiophiles too. Being the IT geek that I am, when I built my house I wired the whole place for sound, networking and cable and it's all tied into a central wiring closet where I have a stereo system that feeds speakers throughout the house. I've been ripping my CD collection lately to my computer and realized that since I've got all this music so well organized (finally) that it would be cool to be able to pump this through my house audio system. So yesterday I bought a Roku Soundbridge M1000 media server(http://www.rokulabs.com) and tied it into my network. It worked exactly as advertised (how often does that happen??!!) and could see all of my media player and iTunes playlists from my computer and it worked! The only problem is though, the music just doesn't sound that great. It's not terrible, but it sounds better on my computer. My suspicion is that it's the DAC on the $200 Soundbridge (you get what you pay for?). Anyway, I'm wondering if you guys concur and if so, what would be a good (relatively inexpensive) DAC to throw into the mix? The soundbridge has toslink, coaxial and analog outputs btw.(and for the money I highly recomend it for it's stated purpose. It really does work plus it looks cool.)Thanks for your help.
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I'm an IT guy and while I can't diagnose your problem directly from experience (never heard of that one), your symptoms don't really sound like a failing hard drive but I suppose it's possible. I've replaced a ton of drives over the years and from my experience a failing hard drive will almost always start to give it's signals in the form of what I call a death whine. In other words, it will start to make noises that you haven't heard before. If it's doing that than yes, get it backed up as soon as you can and replace it.I have a question for the audiophiles too. Being the IT geek that I am, when I built my house I wired the whole place for sound, networking and cable and it's all tied into a central wiring closet where I have a stereo system that feeds speakers throughout the house. I've been ripping my CD collection lately to my computer and realized that since I've got all this music so well organized (finally) that it would be cool to be able to pump this through my house audio system. So yesterday I bought a Roku Soundbridge M1000 media server(http://www.rokulabs.com) and tied it into my network. It worked exactly as advertised (how often does that happen??!!) and could see all of my media player and iTunes playlists from my computer and it worked! The only problem is though, the music just doesn't sound that great. It's not terrible, but it sounds better on my computer. My suspicion is that it's the DAC on the $200 Soundbridge (you get what you pay for?). Anyway, I'm wondering if you guys concur and if so, what would be a good (relatively inexpensive) DAC to throw into the mix? The soundbridge has toslink, coaxial and analog outputs btw.(and for the money I highly recomend it for it's stated purpose. It really does work plus it looks cool.)Thanks for your help.
