Digital Audio Storage Suggestions?

[Weston Awtry]

Hey guys,

I just got my first ever stereo system, and I'm loving it. I have my laptop running into a Schiit Modi DAC which feeds into my Yamaha R-S300 receiver. It sounds great, but I really don't want to have to be carrying my laptop/DAC around just to listen to music. Do yall have any recommendations on a solution to this? I've seen some higher end devices from Sony and NAD, but I'm a poor college student, and my whole system was about $800 so I really need a feasible solution.

 

[JMJVK]

100$ - USB 2TBytes drive
500$ - Oppo BDP-103


The Oppo can output your sound via analog, it has a very decent onboard DAC, and can read media files, including SACD's DSF files from a USB hard-drive formated to NTFS, and play files accessed over regular (Wired of Wi-Fi) network shares and, if desperate, it also works with DLNA

On top of that you get the ability to play SACDs, BD-A and DVD-A optical media.