Have a hard drive with tunes and badass amp/receiver and speakers, is this what I need to play my tunes off of the hard drive?
1119121
No. This plugs into your computer via USB and plays your normal sound out of it's headphone jack (instead of your normal speakers).
1119122
This is only a sound card. You would need to hook this up to a computer. Mac or PC doesn't matter. Sound is pretty good considering price.
1286662
I assume you mean Mac and not Itunes. Songs can be loaded on the unit as you would copy any folders to an external drive. Most of your music is just on folders on a micro sd card, nothing special about that. There is a small amount of internal memory (8gb which is more than some ipods) that can be used for some music, although it is probably better to use this area just for system files and playlists. You can make playlists with a little juggling (I list steps in my review), but I would definitely not use Itunes with this unit. Firmware updates work by unzipping and copying a file to the unit, no problem using Mac for that. As far as actual compatibility with Mac, the only place it would matter is with the DAC driver. This is where you use the DX90 as an external DAC device and you are playing music from your computer directly through the DX90 to improve the sound quality. The driver appears to be PC only if you care about having that function.
539453
If your portable hard drive has a headphone jack use this. Or an adapter cable that's USB on one end and standard A/V connections on the other.
604412
you can stick a usb or external hard drive full of music, in your computer and the controller will read it from there.
1924481
Should be fine, this is a hardware connection to the Hard Drives there is no software or drivers to load.
1842534
I just looked at the manual. It plays the "Roland/Boss proprietary format" (a bunch of tracks that come with the unit & new ones you can download, free I think), MP3 and WAV. I know by experience it doesn't play Windows Media, so I just rip from a CD or snag a WAV from the internet. Oh if you're playing single coils like me you're going to have a lot of hum but it's okay, it's helped me learn a lot but it is expensive.
333647
No , will play any music ,even from a drag and drop . Don't know the max , but I 've found the larger the drive , the more time it takes to go thru the files
978294
No its out put is only pre-amp,it cant drive speakers.u need to provide power amp.
615949
Yes it is. Just plug it in and it will just work, just like a mac :) Drag and drop the sound files to wherever you want. It really is that simple.
230759
I don't think you have to. Set the tuner to DVD/Blue Ray and you should have sound. You do need external speakers connected.
1019985
Not really, u can use mp3s and also use a jump drive for extra hard drive space
1110899
as long as your computer gets you a digital out, either coaxial or optical, then you can enter the dac , then from the dac to your amplifier with a very common rca (red + white) cable. If I may, go for the highest quality file format on spotify, not sure if you have flac there, or any other lossless format, but aim for the highest bit rate. This dac turns a great source into wonder, but won't turn highly compressed mp3 crap into musical heaven.
279769
the output is that of a tuner so if your speakers have a built in amp you should be ok, if not your out of luck or you will have to have a seperate amp
1407919
No, you could use an external HD. Yes, you can play audio CD's the are jacks in the back. The tutorial's on Youtube are very helpful also.
379443
Hello Martin. The short answer is I don't know. However I don't believe this unit has A hard drive, so there's no down loading involved if this is true. It just plays back the information whether it comes from an ipod, mp3, or a memory stick. It also is equipped with Bluetooth which means you can play music from an Iphone or Android wirelessly. I hope this was helpful.
1582042
Yes. It is simply a cd player. You will need a power supply (amp/receiver) and speakers.
2200718
Absolutely not. You'll need a receiver or a power amp of some sort. (And no, not an iPod.)