The Advantage of Having Different Sources To Listen To Music

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nicoff

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Three days ago a major storm hit my area. Power went out several times in one day. As a result, my NAS (where I store my ripped CDs) became unavailable. More than that, the power outage corrupted the files and the NAS had to rebuild the file structure which could take "days". (Three days later the file Structure is still being rebuilt!)

I thought... Ok, good time for analog. I started playing LPs and soon noticed that my phono preamp was acting up. Weird noise from one channel. It needs to go back for factory repair.

Two sources do not work. But I still keep two that work: Roon streaming with Tidal, and CDs (from the attic).

Lesson: Keep your options open! Don't rely on one source!
 
nicoff said:
Three days ago a major storm hit my area. Power went out several times in one day. As a result, my NAS (where I store my ripped CDs) became unavailable. More than that, the power outage corrupted the files and the NAS had to rebuild the file structure which could take "days". (Three days later the file Structure is still being rebuilt!)

I thought... Ok, good time for analog. I started playing LPs and soon noticed that my phono preamp was acting up. Weird noise from one channel. It needs to go back for factory repair.

Two sources do not work. But I still keep two that work: Roon streaming with Tidal, and CDs (from the attic).

Lesson: Keep your options open! Don't rely on one source!
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My CD playback as sole source does just fine, thank you. My CDs are in the music room, not in the attic.
 
I have all my albums on my music server, but also have them all backed up on two separate drives. I use the music server for probably 95% of my listening. I do have my CD/SACD spinner hooked and could play the disks with no issues, but prefer the server :).

I do have a tuner attached but rarely listen to the radio.
 
nicoff said:
Three days ago a major storm hit my area. Power went out several times in one day. As a result, my NAS (where I store my ripped CDs) became unavailable. More than that, the power outage corrupted the files and the NAS had to rebuild the file structure which could take "days". (Three days later the file Structure is still being rebuilt!)

I thought... Ok, good time for analog. I started playing LPs and soon noticed that my phono preamp was acting up. Weird noise from one channel. It needs to go back for factory repair.

Two sources do not work. But I still keep two that work: Roon streaming with Tidal, and CDs (from the attic).

Lesson: Keep your options open! Don't rely on one source!
Click to expand...

What are you using for surge protection?
 
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