On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 08:51 -0700, Mike Anderson wrote: > Well then, is it worth considering that 99% of my input is coming from > CDs burned at 16 bit, 44khz? Honestly, how much can you really dress > that up?
While there is lots of badly engineered CDs at 16/44.1 it does not have to sound bad. The specs were chosen for some decent reasons. One of the audiophile magazines a while back took a bunch of SACD and DVD-audio disks and did frequency analysis of the output, and the majority had nothing at all above 22kHz. They were clearly the same audio bits as on the CD. While CDs will never be "perfect sound forever" they can sound very good. Of course, I never see my CDs anymore, they are down in the basement, all my music is on my server delivered by my SqueezeBoxen I can't help you on the Mac side, I can't spell Mac. But a lot of people say that iTunes has a very good user interface. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
