When I was going to audiophile-level stereo stores asking how I could hook up my MP3 player to high level components, well, they weren't very helpful. I had ripped all my cd's at 320kbps quality (cds are 1411 kbps, typical mp3's you will hear are ripped at 128 or less), and it sounds great and is damn convienent (I have a wireless network delivering my music to all my systems). As soon as I buy more storage, I will be able to drop MP3 and just copy my entire CD collection to my hard drive at exact cd quality, which will be pretty cool.
My friend called it a 'tootsie roll', but its simple, well priced, and very effective.
B&W DM-303
Speaker Output A: Yeah - it needs to be upgraded, but functional for the time being
Blue Room Minipod
Speaker Output B: Designed by B&W, fun and very cool looking (sounds good too, but a little overboard on the bass)
Turtle Beach Audiotron
Yes - it's an MP3 player. It also plays .wav files so if you rip you cds to your hard drive in the cd format, it can read cd format files as well (that sounds obvious, but if i said it played 'cd quality music' that might be misinterpreted as MP3 people have set a rather low standard for that title). this technology is the future of sound, no doubt. What I mean by that, is as technology improves why should we care if our systems read the '1's and '0's off of the cd as opposed to a hard drive. And why will it matter if that hard drive is in the room with the system or upstairs, or even in a different house? As long as the '1's and '0's get to the DAC in the order they are susposed to (I understand this isn't easy) then how they get there doesn't matter - and this is a new tool in getting it there, and a very cool tool at that.
