Skunk;146920 Wrote: > .... and because I thought there was a sonic advantage to streamed > music. Come to think of it, this* is where I drank it.... > * http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue22/nugent.htm Unfortunately, the article by Steve Nugent that you cite is utter hogwash. His thesis regarding the superiority of computer based playback over CD is founded on the completely erroneous axiom that the master clock in a CD player is in the transport. It isn't.
Incidentally, just in case anyone here thinks I'm advocating that CD is just as good as hard disk playback, that's not the case. I think that the Squeezebox approach is superior in a some respects (I did sell my CD player, after all). But I can't watch so much misinformation get spread around without comment. If it does go unchallenged, then after a while it becomes "internet truth" - just like that shoddy article by Nugent, which I've seen cited on a number of occasions in various places. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
