Any servers that handle Multi-Channel?

[Geno]

It's been several months since my last upgrade, so my mind is naturally dreaming of ways to spend more money on new HT stuff. I have been looking at the various servers on the market, since I'd like to do away with physical media like my CD changer. My only drawback is that I have a pretty decent library of SACD and DVD-A discs in multi-channel, and the servers I've looked at only mention stereo.

To those of you who are up on the latest server info: is there such an animal?

 

[davidtwotrees]

I have watched the basic server offerings for this very animal.....and it looks dismal. Olive, Escient, and AudioRequest..........no plans for multi channel servers....

Stereophile did a review of the Linn Klimax.......which was kind of a hirez server.....read the article here to get an idea of what this entailed. It was very complicated and verrrrry pricey. I picked Olive as the choice for hi rez plug and play because they seem to cater to classical audiophiles......which would be the one target audience for sacd multichannel listening. There may also be some complicated copyright stuff involved, too.
I wouldn't hold your breath on this one. The best bet would be to bone up on your computer skills and see what is happening with 5.1 sound cards. That seems to be the wave to watch.....
Although I haven't checked the movie dvd servers to see if they capture the whole movie in surround sound..........

 

[allargon]

Geno, you might just want to wait a bit. WMA can handle multichannel. (a little easier to convert the DVD-A's) It might be a small while before things come about to the hardware side.

So you predict plug and play one box hi rez music servers not unlike my Escient Fireball?
Or are you referring to computer set ups?

I predict!

 

[davidtwotrees]

Geno, you might just want to wait a bit. WMA can handle multichannel. (a little easier to convert the DVD-A's) It might be a small while before things come about to the hardware side.

So you predict plug and play one box hi rez music servers not unlike my Escient Fireball?
Or are you referring to computer set ups?

 

[Dutchman01]

So you predict plug and play one box hi rez music servers not unlike my Escient Fireball?
Or are you referring to computer set ups?

Mu freenas server and DTS audio files goes very well to my Denon AVR-4306
true the net-audio.

My AVR handels 5.1 great over the ethernet port.