Computer Audiophile

This is the general forum to discuss anything audio related or site related etc ... Post away!

Discussions about canned / turnkey music servers, building your own music server, hard drives for music servers, SAN, NAS, RAID, etc...

DACs and digital audio conversion hardware discussions. Internal or external units. These are becoming more critical than ever as we move to computer based music.

Discussions about all things related to Disk Storage. NAS, SAN, DAS, internal and external hard drives, firewire 400, firewire 800, USB, eSATA, Time Capsule, Backup etc...

Discussions about all things network. Network based audio products and technologies. Streaming audio in the home, out of the home, and from Internet services. AirPlay, UPnP, DLNA, Ravenna, AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, AppleTV, Squeezebox, Linn DS, Sonos, PS Audio Bridge, etc... Home networking both wired and wireless. Routers, switches, wireless access points, powerline networking, 802.11 b/g/a/n/ac etc… This is a new forum area and will need a little push to get going full speed.

By popular demand an area dedicated to headphones and speakers large or small, floorstanding or bookshelf, dedicated to audio or computer based systems. Sure Head-Fi is the ultimate place for headphone information but sometimes people want an alternative :~)

Discussions about computer software used to playback music, rip music, organize music etc ... iTunes, Exact Audio Copy, JRiver Media Center, Amarra, Pure Music, Audirvana, Fidelia, Windows Media Player and all others. Also included are iOS and Android apps for remote control.

Discussions about audiophile quality downloads. Sites like iTrax, Music Giants, Linn Records, Naxos Music Library and any others. What is your experience with audiophile downloads?

Heard anything good lately? What music do you use to demo new equipment? Favorite albums of all time and favorite sounding albums of all time? Want to write your own music reviews? This is the place.

The Music Analysis forum was created to help Computer Audiophiles make educated purchases of physical formats and downloaded music. This area is for objective and subjective music analysis. Each thread is limited to discussing a single album. Objective analysis can include Spectrograms / FFT graphs, Waveform screenshots, and Dynamic Range information.

This forum is for buying and selling audio and computer components. Dealers are prohibited from selling components in this area.