Try any of the USB servers that can read from outboard drives. Oppo 93 or 95 will let you plug and play your wav files. DVD A has been around for a very long time and allows you to listen to higher Rez. I only listen to a cd in my car. At home it is either wav files of my hard drive or DVD A.
Thanks for your response. I will give dvd-a a try.
My personal listening is mostly over studio monitors, then on cd in the car, and then earbuds while exercising. I'll grant than many serious tapers may listen to music at higher sampling rates than 44.1, but what about the rest of the universe? Serious tapers (a smaller number than total number of taperssection users) comprise, what, .0000001% of the music listening population? Let's just take the population of people we personally know with whom we share recordings - what percentage even know how to listen to a 48k file? 1%? What percentage are listened to on cds, on computer cheap speakers, on earbuds? Seriously, what percentage of people YOU KNOW PERSONALLY even know how to listen to a 48k file? If they do, would they listen on a computer with crappy speakers?
My contention IS NOT that we can HEAR the noise and distortion introduced by resampling down from 48 or 96 to 44.1k, just that that it is scientifically measurable and not insignificant. Also, since mics can't pick up frequencies over 20k, since even audiophiles with the best systems can't hear it, and since it has been proven that there also isn't any future benefit (we'll never be able to hear better, regardless of what improvements develop with playback systems), I am assserting that we tapers shouldn't routinely DEGRADE our recordings by making them at sample rates higher than 44.1 if over 99% of the listening will happen at a RESAMPLED rate.
Or to restate the case, since there is NO BENEFIT to higher sampling rates, and scientifically verifiable and measurable DEGRADATION from resampling (even with the best software - it's the nature of the process to add noise and distortion), and only 1% of the people who listen to our recordings will listen at 48k or higher rates and of that generous figure of 1% only a tiny percentage listen on quality playback systems, the costs outweigh the benefits (none).
If I'm wrong I don't mind hearing about it. I'm wrong all the time and I usually do end up hearing about it.