I use a 1.6ghz single processor G5 mac tower with a bunch of extra sata drives internal bringing the total storage up to 1.1tb. Currently my collection occupies ~500 MB so I clearly over estimated the space, but what makes the mac so good is its included optical output and its enclosure which allows for flexibility and cooling. It will make some noise but its not in my listening room. I control it with a RF wireless keyboard. The receiver plugs into a USB port. The keyboard has a touch pad integrated into it. I have a DLP projector and I just run the computer into my projector and I use itunes (all the music is encoded as AIFF 16 bit/ 44.1khz). Having everything at your fingertips is truly a wonderful treat. The only two downsides to this for me are that itunes will cause a tiny little gap between songs in playback- even AIFF encoded- you can get around this by enabling cross fade playback but even set to 0 seconds it will cause one track into the next to cross over a tiny bit so things like pink floyd can be affected, but its not enough to bother me. The other thing is because I have multiple hard drives and since I use it so randomly I have the drives set to spin down when not in use for a period of time and sometimes when I call up a song there is a pause while the drive spins up. Not anywhere as elegant as a dedicated Meridian product would be, but it works for me.

best regards,
Jerry

Best regards,
Jerry
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