I have just ordered a Bryston BDP-1 media player to go with my audio and home theater system (Theta CB3 HD SSP, Theta Gen 8 Series 3 DAC, pair of Theta Citadel 1.5 monoblocks, three Theta Enterprise monoblocks, four Aerial 9s, one Aerial CC5, three Aerial SW-12 subwoofers.) My Theta SSP and Gen 8 DAC both have digital BNC, RCA and AES/EBU inputs – the Gen 8 AES/EBU input is already being used as its connected to the Theta SSP’s digital out card. A number of Theta CB3 HD owners at AVS Forum already have the BDP-1 and they absolutely luv it raving about its sonic quality.
I have an Apple Ipad2 I will use as a remote/media manager. I have a Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV8 i7 quad core notebook I will use for ripping CDs/discs. My home theater system has excellent high speed wireless N and internet access thanks to Monster Cable powerline wireless and Apple Airport base station and several Apple Airport Expresses around my home and theater.
I’d like input on your suggestions on software, cabling, USB drives, etc. to use with this setup:
Ripping Music:
DbPowerAmp to rip redbook CDs to FLAC files, which supports metadata song/album info. Or does anyone think WAV files, which don’t support metadata info, sounds discernably better?
DVD Audio Extractor, to rip/convert audio from DVDs http://www.dvdae.com/dvdae/
I saw something about using Korg Audiogate to rip/convert audio from SACDs
http://www.korguser.net/audiogate/en/index.html I glanced at the website and says you can use software if you sign up on the Twitter account. This sounds too good to be true? Is it? Is there any way to easily rip stereo SACDs to hi rez PCM on a PC?
Its easier for me to simply rip music to my Toshiba notebook’s built-in hard drive initially.
Then copy to external USB drive. But if I do this in this manner, is there an accuracy/jitter problem with the copy on the external USB drive? Or should I rip direct to an external USB drive connected via USB cable to my notebook? Or is there a special program to copy media files from my notebook to an external USB drive?
IPad2 as Remote and Media Manager:
My understanding is that its best to simply download and use MPAD from the i-tunes website for my IPad2 to work as a remote with full access to cover art and album/song info, etc. from the internet. Any info or suggestions in this regard?
Digital Cables/Connections:
An Absolute Sound Review noted that sonics were better using the BNC, rather than the AES/EBU, output from the Bryston BDP-1. Any comments or suggestions in this regard?
For years I’ve been happy using Granite Audio RCA coaxial digital cables 2M. Amir has mentioned that lengths less than 2M will have digital reflections/jitter problems. I need to get a new BNC to BNC coaxial digital cable for the BDP-1. Any suggestions? What if I use bnc-rca adapters, which I have from Radio Shack, will using the adapters have any effect on sound quality?
External USB Drives:
I read in one review that although USB thumb drives are useful, that the reviewer subjectively felt that the external USB hard drive sounded better than the USB thumb drive. Comments in this regard?
Suggestions for external USB hard drive to pair with BDP-1?
And is there any special software to use to make/copy/rip a backup USB hard drive of my media files?
Thanks.
I have an Apple Ipad2 I will use as a remote/media manager. I have a Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV8 i7 quad core notebook I will use for ripping CDs/discs. My home theater system has excellent high speed wireless N and internet access thanks to Monster Cable powerline wireless and Apple Airport base station and several Apple Airport Expresses around my home and theater.
I’d like input on your suggestions on software, cabling, USB drives, etc. to use with this setup:
Ripping Music:
DbPowerAmp to rip redbook CDs to FLAC files, which supports metadata song/album info. Or does anyone think WAV files, which don’t support metadata info, sounds discernably better?
DVD Audio Extractor, to rip/convert audio from DVDs http://www.dvdae.com/dvdae/
I saw something about using Korg Audiogate to rip/convert audio from SACDs
http://www.korguser.net/audiogate/en/index.html I glanced at the website and says you can use software if you sign up on the Twitter account. This sounds too good to be true? Is it? Is there any way to easily rip stereo SACDs to hi rez PCM on a PC?
Its easier for me to simply rip music to my Toshiba notebook’s built-in hard drive initially.
Then copy to external USB drive. But if I do this in this manner, is there an accuracy/jitter problem with the copy on the external USB drive? Or should I rip direct to an external USB drive connected via USB cable to my notebook? Or is there a special program to copy media files from my notebook to an external USB drive?
IPad2 as Remote and Media Manager:
My understanding is that its best to simply download and use MPAD from the i-tunes website for my IPad2 to work as a remote with full access to cover art and album/song info, etc. from the internet. Any info or suggestions in this regard?
Digital Cables/Connections:
An Absolute Sound Review noted that sonics were better using the BNC, rather than the AES/EBU, output from the Bryston BDP-1. Any comments or suggestions in this regard?
For years I’ve been happy using Granite Audio RCA coaxial digital cables 2M. Amir has mentioned that lengths less than 2M will have digital reflections/jitter problems. I need to get a new BNC to BNC coaxial digital cable for the BDP-1. Any suggestions? What if I use bnc-rca adapters, which I have from Radio Shack, will using the adapters have any effect on sound quality?
External USB Drives:
I read in one review that although USB thumb drives are useful, that the reviewer subjectively felt that the external USB hard drive sounded better than the USB thumb drive. Comments in this regard?
Suggestions for external USB hard drive to pair with BDP-1?
And is there any special software to use to make/copy/rip a backup USB hard drive of my media files?
Thanks.
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