Best standalone music server?


So I am considering dipping my toes into the full digital world and was wondering what people here may consider as the best standalone music server, and here I am going to be specific.
I do not want to consider a home pc or mac based type of system at all!
Looking at adding one of the standalone models like for example the Wyred4sound ms1 or cocktail audio.
High on my list is ability to rip my cds directly at the unit itself, access to internet radio and other music apps (Pandora etc). High quality built in dac would be nice but if not then high quality digital out to run to an external dac. I will not be needing to access music files stored on another pc as my home pc is pretty old but fully functional for my simple needs. The only music looking to access from it right now are ripped cds and internet available music in whatever form.
So if it worked out well, yes it may be a replacement even for a cd player completely

Thank you
128x128uberwaltz
Maybe your test would be different with FLAC, both should go faster. FYI, flac does much better with metadata than WAV. Cheers,
Spencer
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You could be right Spencer, I will try another cd tonight and see
But do you think it would be any faster writing to an external drive over usb2?
@uberwaltz that won't be faster write to your computer first then transfer your files to an external drive if you want to. Writing directly will likely slow things down further.
And when you finish ripping everything look at Goodsync or similar backup management software to make sure you don't lose it all. Physical backups in a different place are a really good idea. Cheers,
Spencer
has anyone checked out NAD's new M50.2 ? does everything without the dac... I'd like to get it but out of my price range.... $4000 new