Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge

Tmhayes,

Would you mind giving a little more detail on your setup? Is your external hard drive connected to your computer, router or PWD with wire? If so, what kind of wire? I'm having a little trouble figuring all this out for myself. I'm obviously not computerly inclined. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Ben and a Happy New Year to you also!

That helps but let me get a little more specific. What I would like to do is get a NAS with a couple of hard drives so I'd have automatic backup. Since my computer with the modem and my stereo are in different places I'd like to be able to move the NAS and connect it by wire (USB or CAT 5) to the computer or router for downloading music then move it to the stereo and connect it to the PWD Bridge with CAT 5 for listening.

I'd like to control the NAS with an IPod Touch or IPad or something similar. Would that work? I'm guessing that the controlling software would have to be on the computer. Are there Wifi NASs that could be connected to the router wirelessly so that it could take orders as to what to play? If the answer to all that is too long just let me know and I'll wait another year to get into servers. I don't mind playing cds.

Thanks Lightminer and _Ben. I'll continue to research. _Ben, uploading 4,000 cds is quite an accomplishment in itself. Enjoy!