Hi All,
Here's my situation and I'd welcome any advice:
I have a few thousand CDs I want to rip and then playback through my A/V receiver.
Because these are CDs I don't need to worry about resolutions greater than 16/44 (unless there's a simple and legal way I can rip my SACDs that I'm unaware of).
I primarily listen to classical music, so gapless playback is a must.
Based on my research, it seems like the two cheapest options are:
Rip the collection to iTunes on my existing computer, buy an AppleTV or Raspberry Pi, and use AirPlay to get the music from my computer to the the receiver.
Two questions:
1. As the signal goes from my computer to the AppleTV/Raspberry to my receiver, is it going to go through any kind of resampling that's going to degrade audio quality?
2. Should I rip the music as AIFF, WAV or ALAC?
The other alternative is to buy a computer and hook it up to my receiver via HDMI, but I feel like that's overkill given that I'm just playing back 16/44 files.
Thanks
