And when it fails, it fails hard: your library is no longer accessible by any other devices. Failures: the achilles heal of the vault is reliability of the storage. must all be carefully checked if you have a large library. Very expensive when you consider what the three separate functions would cost. This Vault is essentially a Bluesound node cobbled with a CD reader (only CD's BTW, and not DTS or other HiRes music discs), and 2TB of storage.
The vault 2 Pc#
Ripping takes time, and is not as accurate as other PC based ripping sofware Sound quality when paired with an appropriate amplifier and speakers is always excellent. Storage provided is adequate for most needs. Some of your more obscure discs may not be found, but that is rare. Ripping a large CD collection works well with the Vault. I later discovered that the integration is however also its weakness: if something fails, the unit becomes an expensive paperweight. This product was attractive to me as I had a large number of CD's to rip and liked the idea of an integrated approach to storing my music digitally.
I have posted a lengthy review and comment followups on Amazon. Definitely a neat way to enter into the high end of this technology without spending a fortune. However, I am learning that compared to other equipment in this genre, that you get a lot of hardware for the money and it compares favorably to equipment that costs four or five times the money. I have tried to find out more about it, but it is suspiciously difficult to find out details about the DAC - I suspect that means that it is not something they are wanting to put out in the open. Lots of options for connectivity and I'm not knowledgeable about DACs and whether this is a good one or not.
The vault 2 software#
It is kind of like DOS or a command line based program rather than a GUI.īut software can by updated, the hardware is pretty good. And the app/program isn't very graphical. There are some un-intuitive menu items, and some things don't work how they should. THAT SAID, this is definitely a work in progress. Honestly I do not know how they do such a good job of customer support - they are quick to answer and very helpful. is an excellent resource if you have questions. I will say that Bluesound has a very robust and competent help forum and Tony W. I have not tried to rip and play a CD at the same time, but you can play other songs that are ripped while you are ripping another CD.Īlso, I believe you can import vinyl but I am not certain of the logistics there.
The vault 2 free#
I also want to be able to free up the tremendous amount of space that these CDs take up in my home. Also, some of the CDs have become very brittle with one of them breaking in two when I tried to remove it. My 24k gold CDs are not experiencing this of course. One VERY POSITIVE aspect of this is that I am now able to take these files and move them to any format, including thumb drives, and backup my files and I should no longer have to worry about my CDs deteriorating - which some of them are starting to do as oxygen enters the sides of the plastic and causes the aluminum to oxidize. On one hand, I find it a bit time consuming, but on the other hand I hope that I am getting high quality rips of these cd's.
I have some impressive collectible CD's and some of them are irreplaceable. I have a LARGE CD collection from 30 years in the radio industry, and many of them as a music director. So the end result from the Vault is probably pretty good if it is spending this much time with it. Keep in mind that all of these CD's play perfectly fine in my car and home CD players, which means that a CD player is able to "rip" these on the fly without any perceptible flaws. Looking at some of the data generated, it appears that this is because of jitter and things like that - where the CD is out of round, or other problems with production. I have also found that some CD's are whisper quiet while others are noisy as heck while ripping.
The rip is supposed to be very good - bit perfect. But I chose WAV as the purest, rawest form of storage. I am ripping to WAV, I believe FLAC would be similar - FLAC may take longer due to the compression involved? In retrospect, I would have chosen FLAC due to its inherent better tag management and reduction in size. But the average is definitely around 7 minutes. I have a Vault 2i - I find that ripping take 6-7 minutes per CD, with the exception that some of my 24k gold masters seem to rip slightly faster and really scratched or scuffed CD's can take longer.
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