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biglou:
Computer/Streaming setups. Post yours:

Computer type: (PC or Mac)
Stand alone PC system or front end for primary system (SA or FE):
Playback software (if more then one list pluses and minuses):
Ripping software:
Drive you use to rip:
Sound card:
Storage device (internal/external/brand):
DAC:
Connection to DAC:
File storage system:
File type:

richidoo:
This should be a fun topic!

Computer type: PC and NAS host
Stand alone PC system or front end for primary system:  FE
Playback software (if more then one list pluses and minuses): Slimserver, Soundforge
Ripping software: EAC, Windows Media player, Soundforge
Drive you use to rip: Generic DVD-R 52x, or Plextor
Sound card: Presonus Firepod for recording and mixing, SB3 for general playback
Storage device (internal/external/brand): Infrant ReadyNAS NV with Seagate 250GB drives
DAC:  SB or Firepod, maybe Altmann DAC coming soon?
Connection to DAC: wired ethernet for SB, firewire for Firepod
File storage system: Infrant's "Raid5" on NAS
File type: WAV for critical, flac for general hifi, mp3 for portables

Carlman:
Everything I have is ripped to FLAC via EAC and stored on a music server.  I play it on another PC in my soundroom using the latest version of Foobar.

1. Music server in my office:
Pentium 4 2.0G, 500M RAM, 3 300G Seagate HD's, and a Plextor CD burner  (not DVD).  It's in a Nexus case, Zallman fans, fairly quiet, large, with big fans and nice power supply... Very nice machine.
2. HP Slimline in my sound room:
Pentium dual core, brand new, 1G RAM, 160G HD, spdif out, USB, etc.  I use this kind of like a dumb terminal to get music from the server in the office.
3. Scott Nixon's USB Tube DAC
Cryo'd and treated Sovtek tube in it now.
3/'future'... Will be Scott Nixon's multi-input DAC which has a lot of new features... will talk about it when it arrives.

biglou:
Computer type: iMac
Playback software (if more then one list pluses and minuses): iTunes
Ripping software: not ripping these days
Sound card: n/a
Storage device (internal/external/brand): external 7200rm SeaGate
DAC: iMac
Connection to DAC: n/a
File storage system: apple lossless/iTunes
File type: lossless

getting a Squeezebox soon and it will go to my second system with Rega R1 monitors and amp to be determined...

inguz:
Computer type: PC (XP)
Playback software (if more then one list pluses and minuses): SlimServer (and foobar occasionally)
Ripping software: EAC
Drive you use to rip: the PC's built-in (LITE-ON DVDRW)
Sound card: none
Storage device (internal/external/brand): internal 400GB Seagate drives, RAID mirrored
DAC: Transporter
Connection to DAC: Ethernet, wireless
File type: FLAC

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