Connecting High Res Audio files into my Denafrips Venus II 12th

@pkthesublime 

That is a very good idea and I will do some research on NAS.  A question?  When you buy a High Res digital album, do you get some type of certificate of ownership?  I would hate to have a hardware or data corruption issue that causes my files to be rendered useless.

As to the Venus, I found an exceptional deal on a used Venus II 12th shortly after the 15th came out.  It was my first time investing in a high end DAC and I was stunned at how great my digital can sound.  I was using Amazon HD and it improved quite a bit, but CDs are a brand new experience.  I think the Pontus 15th and the Venus II 12th are similar if not the same machines.

Backup, backup, backup. And 1 should be offsite. I backup my website code, database and images to USB drives. I give copies to my shooting buddies. They keep them in their safes. As do I.

@maam522a 

You do not get any type of certificate, but HDTracks et al do keep records of your purchases.  The best thing to do, as @ibmjunkman suggests, is to have backups.  I have local and cloud backups of my music library.  This is also more easily accomplished with a NAS.

I think you're right about the Venus 12th being the platform for Pontus 15th - that value proposition was one of the reasons I jumped on it.  So glad I did!

I use a Eversolo dmp-a6 master streamer and store my Hires files in external memory and is installed inside the Eversol.

I have a Pontus ll and it does Hi-Res files from my NAS and a HD plugged into my streamer.  I’m told that because it’s a R2R DAC, it has to change the DSD to PCM, but the music still sounds sweet to me.