Hey guys.. I think I'm going to pick up a couple of hard drives and transfer all of my flac and shn discs to the hd's for easier playback. For the time being I will need to run analog out of my desktop soundcard (zoltrix nightengale pro 6) and then into my NAD 370.
My main question is, what program would you suggest I use to playback the shns and flacs on the pc? Right now I just use winamp and the associated plug-ins. Does anyone know of any other (better sounding) programs to use for playback?
And while typing this I started to look at my setup and thought about running digi out of the soundcard into my da20mkII, in rec/pause and then use the d/a stage in the da20mkII. Does anyone know how long the deck will stay in rec/pause? Is this bad? I'm thinking it will engage the rec head and thus put unnecessary wear on the head.
I know the ultimate answer is to just get a nice dac but that's not happening anytime soon, unfortunately.
Thanks guys!