Apple Time Capsule or NAS?
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:50 am
I have just about finished building a digital collection and now need to improve playback, but i am very unsure what to do and the choices seem endless and frankly confusing as i have little interest in the details of the digital world.
I tried Spotify and it's not for me, i prefer my own files.
I do not need multi-room playback (not yet anyway!). This is just for lazy personal playback.
I do want / prefer a wireless connection from my laptop.
I want to get rid of the external hard drive connected to my laptop. So all i know about today is the Time Capsule or NAS plugged into my router.
I would like to use something more portable than my laptop, but want to continue using iTunes. Can I run iTunes on any brand of tablet etc?
I would like to connect to both music and internet for email at the same time.
My current setup is a laptop (running Windows) with external hard drive / wireless to Airport Express / Audioquest Forest optical cable / Cambridge Audio DacMagic.
The Airport Express has audio dropout, with Windows 7 the dropout is less than with Windows 8.
Getting rid of this annoying dropout is priority one. I blame the Airport Express for the simple reason i read of many people with the same problem. It’s a fraction of a second only, sometimes its once a day, sometimes several times a track.
The Time Capsule sounds easy to set up, but i wonder if it has the same dropout problem as the Airport Express.
I like the idea of a 2 drive NAS setup as i can then keep my KL and Manila digital collection in sync. Preferably with solid state drives.
I have no idea what a Sonos or a Squeezebox do or if i even need something like this.
I need something easy to set up. A few nights ago i plugged the external hard drive into my existing D-Link router to see if i could make it work and lost my internet connection for almost an hour....i have no idea what went wrong or how I got my connection back. I do not need further panic or the evil eye from those whose internet was also lost.
Is an optical cable the best connection to my dac?
My router is at least 2 years old so i can change that if it helps.
All suggestions are welcome
I tried Spotify and it's not for me, i prefer my own files.
I do not need multi-room playback (not yet anyway!). This is just for lazy personal playback.
I do want / prefer a wireless connection from my laptop.
I want to get rid of the external hard drive connected to my laptop. So all i know about today is the Time Capsule or NAS plugged into my router.
I would like to use something more portable than my laptop, but want to continue using iTunes. Can I run iTunes on any brand of tablet etc?
I would like to connect to both music and internet for email at the same time.
My current setup is a laptop (running Windows) with external hard drive / wireless to Airport Express / Audioquest Forest optical cable / Cambridge Audio DacMagic.
The Airport Express has audio dropout, with Windows 7 the dropout is less than with Windows 8.
Getting rid of this annoying dropout is priority one. I blame the Airport Express for the simple reason i read of many people with the same problem. It’s a fraction of a second only, sometimes its once a day, sometimes several times a track.
The Time Capsule sounds easy to set up, but i wonder if it has the same dropout problem as the Airport Express.
I like the idea of a 2 drive NAS setup as i can then keep my KL and Manila digital collection in sync. Preferably with solid state drives.
I have no idea what a Sonos or a Squeezebox do or if i even need something like this.
I need something easy to set up. A few nights ago i plugged the external hard drive into my existing D-Link router to see if i could make it work and lost my internet connection for almost an hour....i have no idea what went wrong or how I got my connection back. I do not need further panic or the evil eye from those whose internet was also lost.
Is an optical cable the best connection to my dac?
My router is at least 2 years old so i can change that if it helps.
All suggestions are welcome