Exciting, I know, but I’ve really reached a crossroads with my current setup. See, I’m old enough to remember when music critics like Yancey and Sasha suffered some pretty amazing hard drive crashes in the last decade. They spent time ripping their discs to hard drives, only to watch their collections vanish, thanks to hardware failures. It wasn’t pretty.
So I waited. I bided my time hoping that someday I would feel confident enough in technology to make the leap. Fact of the matter is, I’m still not confident, but my modest rowhome won’t really accomodate stuff like cd collections these days. Add a kid to the mix and you’re suddenly not as concerned about the black metal collection you’ve compiled that you hardly ever have time (or patience) to listen to. Thus…
I’m in the process of rethinking the living room. What if I move the stereo receiver into the TV stand and run everything through that, finally putting the fancy speakers I bought nearly a decade ago to good use? If I hang the TV on the wall I can put the turntable atop the stand above the cubby that houses the receiver, with the set top box and Xbox 360 occupying the other two cubbies.
Which raises another question: do I upgrade the receiver I bought back in grad school to something that has an mp3 input jack? I foresee a time in the near future where I’ve ripped everything to the 2 terabyte hard drive I bought at the Port Richmond Target on Black Friday and I’ll want to stream from it through iTunes (this is possible, yes?) and it might make sense to be able to just plug my Macbook into the receiver directly, allowing me to control it with the remote app on my iPhone. The future!
Is this where I say I think I already need to upgrade my wireless router?