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Dear Romy,

Of course I would love to be able to use my personal computer as a music server.  I did evaluate music servers (although it was some 2 years ago) and tested the capabilities of my personal computers, including Exact Audio Copy, lossless audio data formats, buffering mechanisms, CDR writers, external hard drives, raid networks, connections between audio components and personal computers, cabling, etc.  The results that I obtained were disappointing using personal computers.  I would like to revisit that whole area but I prbably need a good solution for connection from Lavry ADC to personal computer and from personal computer to Lavry DAC.  Do you have one?

The Alesis that I use has no network interface.  It makes perfect backups of CDs.  I have experienced no problems with conversion between a lossless format and Redbook in both directions as long as the word length is not changed.  As far as word length conversions is concerned this is not a function that I would perform using the Alesis.  Alesis can write CDRs in word length up to 24 bits and sample rate up to 96.0 kHz in an AIFF file format.  You can also choose, if you wish, to produce CDRs of 16/44.1 using the AIFF file format instead of Redbook.  Of course, the AIFF file format is more robust because it contains more error correction information and is a better implementation for data integrity of computer data.  What it does for me is blameless.  Of course I would be interested in augmenting this setup by being able to use persoanl computer as a music server.

For recording of FM broadcasts or any other material, I would expect to record, store, backup and play that recording at the same word length and sample rate even if it means some inconvenience with the storage medium (CDR) vs DVD.

Regards, Peter Foster.

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