Listening to 1 Tetrabyte of Uncompressed Music via USB Port

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Wow!

No more need for a Juke Box or Server or 500 CD changer for high quality uncompressed 2.0 Music.

And you DON'T even need to hook up the receiver to the Internet or a Computer!

All you need is a external portable Hard Drive connected to a Denon receiver via USB.

With a tetrabyte hard drive, you could store 1300 CDs (each CD 750MB) of uncompressed 2.0 Ch 48 kHz/16 Bit WAV music files.

Finally, the Denon receiver converts the 48 Khz/16 Bit music to 96 kHz/24 Bit music.

 

[Adam]

Do you mean terabyte?

 

[jamie2112]

Tetrabyte is a new fish I have been told.... That is sweet ADTG nice to know...tetra is a fish tera is a byte..

 

[davidtwotrees]

What kind of GUI? Does it osd the library with artwork from Gracenote?

 

[Gimpy Ric]

AcuDefTechDude - Did you get your new super duper Denon 5308CI receiver? Your so lucky, I want one, can we share? That thing is the bomb from what I've read. Enjoy !

 

[Warpdrv]

What kind of GUI? Does it osd the library with artwork from Gracenote?

+1, could you snap off some pics of the music interface... ?


It really is nice to stream music and movies, I have been doing that for 8 years now since I hacked my Xbox, and I have a D-link dual hd NAS with 2 terabytes in it... It sure is nice to have whole house network abilites.

 

[Hi Ho]

I've been doing this for a couple years. My Yamaha RX-V2700 streams music off my PC over my network. I could just as easily connect an external hard drive to the USB port if I wanted too. All of the music is stored in .WAV format and it performs flawlessly. The Yamaha GUI is intuitive and looks nice.

 

[itschris]

I'm doing that with my 94, but the interface blows and it's much nicer on the Dennon from what I hear.

AcuDefTechGuy's got the setup!

 

[allargon]

Wow!

No more need for a Juke Box or Server or 500 CD changer for high quality uncompressed 2.0 Music.

And you DON'T even need to hook up the receiver to the Internet or a Computer!

All you need is a external portable Hard Drive connected to a Denon receiver via USB.

With a tetrabyte hard drive, you could store 1300 CDs (each CD 750MB) of uncompressed 2.0 Ch 48 kHz/16 Bit WAV music files.

Finally, the Denon receiver converts the 48 Khz/16 Bit music to 96 kHz/24 Bit music.

You mean 44.1kHz/16bit for your CD's, right? I have quite a few components that can play mp3's and wma's directly from a USB drive, but I'm not sure if they will play the WAV files. (I know my BH200 didn't like those unpacked 96/24 DVD-A's I tried to give it.)

If you guys keep expanding audio into computerdom, I will have to start listing USB stick and external USB drive sales (like the 1TB Seagate USB for $149.99 or the barbones 1TB Samsung for $109) in my weekly Fry's thread.

Personally, I don't like a receiver integrating what should be the function of a component into it. However, many people think pre-amps, amplifiers, processors and tuners should be in four separate units. So, maybe I'm just ignoring the future.

 

[itschris]

You mean 44.1kHz/16bit for your CD's, right? I have quite a few components that can play mp3's and wma's directly from a USB drive, but I'm not sure if they will play the WAV files. (I know my BH200 didn't like those unpacked 96/24 DVD-A's I tried to give it.)

If you guys keep expanding audio into computerdom, I will have to start listing USB stick and external USB drive sales (like the 1TB Seagate USB for $149.99 or the barbones 1TB Samsung for $109) in my weekly Fry's thread.

Personally, I don't like a receiver integrating what should be the function of a component into it. However, many people think pre-amps, amplifiers, processors and tuners should be in four separate units. So, maybe I'm just ignoring the future.

I definately think the days of seperates are on the way out. Personally, I love seperates. Even though I have a fairly capable receiver, I still like using a seperate amp. I like seeing stacks of equipment. My goal is to have monoblocks for each channel pumping through individual preamps. A waste? Sure, but it sure does look cool.

At the same time though, I really like the idea of an HTPC. It's kinda hard to deny the value of a really good HTPC and media server in your system. The Media Center interface is pretty slick and I think they'll only make it better.

One day I imagine the highest end system will just be a computer... it seems their essentially that already.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Do you mean terabyte?

Damn it.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

What kind of GUI? Does it osd the library with artwork from Gracenote?

I don't know what that means, but the art work I see is not that great looking:

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[AcuDefTechGuy]

AcuDefTechDude - Did you get your new super duper Denon 5308CI receiver? Your so lucky, I want one, can we share? That thing is the bomb from what I've read. Enjoy !

Yeah, I got it Friday. I'm still trying to figure it out.

I got the HD radio and USB figured out. I got the component configurations figured out. Well, I think I got most things that I care about figured out.

The one thing I gave up on for now is the WiFi. I think there is something wrong with my home PC network.

 

[itschris]

Now that's slick! One of the big complaints against the 94 was the pedestrian OSD. I didn't care at all at first, but now it does sorda bug me.

Dennon definately did that right.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Now that's slick! One of the big complaints against the 94 was the pedestrian OSD. I didn't care at all at first, but now it does sorda bug me.

Dennon definately did that right.

Well, most of the time I don't even turn on the TV. I make a Favorites folder and put my 30 favorite songs in it and just play from there.

I guess that album art is "cool", but it's really no big deal if you don't have it.

I wonder if there is a ripping software that will provide a better resolution album art. I used the Windows Media player to rip WAV files, and I think the album art is not that great looking. Or maybe I'm too picky?

 

[GlocksRock]

did you format the hard drive as FAT 32 or NTFS?

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

did you format the hard drive as FAT 32 or NTFS?

It's FAT 32.

Why, is yours NTFS?

 

[GlocksRock]

I dont have a network receiver, I just stream music to my PS3 or xbox 360 from my media PC that has 2 NTFS formatted drives. The only drive I have that has FAT 32 on it is a hard drive I keep at work to listen to music with, and I have a separate partition on it that is FAT 32 so I can use it to backup my PS3 hard drives.

I was just curious to see if your receiver would work with a NTFS drive.

 

[itschris]

Well, most of the time I don't even turn on the TV. I make a Favorites folder and put my 30 favorite songs in it and just play from there.

I guess that album art is "cool", but it's really no big deal if you don't have it.

I wonder if there is a ripping software that will provide a better resolution album art. I used the Windows Media player to rip WAV files, and I think the album art is not that great looking. Or maybe I'm too picky?

I was just gonna ask you about what you use to rip your WAVs. I was thinking of doing all mine in FLAC, but thinking about how cheap hd's are, why even bother.

I wonder if MediaMonkey does WAV's I can't get on their site from work because we block all MP3 stuff.

 

[nasd90]

One word... AppleTV.


Rules.

Wireless. Extremely clean interface.


nasd90