pablolie;183869 Wrote: > And you seemed to made the point the superiority of computer based audo > is its supposed ability to utterly eliminate bit errors, and if I am > attributing it to you wrongly I apologize - it's a claim that was made > earlier in this thread. And I have simply never seen any data or proof > or material anywhere that shows that a red book audio CD playing in a > regular CD player is plagued by enough bit errors to fundamentally make > it inferior to a PC-based system where the CD has been ripped into it. > > There is no reason why, in prinicple, the latter can't sound just as > good as the high end CD player. I never stated otherwise. All of us > with a SB know that, and appreciate it. All I am saying is my own CD > player to this day sounds better than *my* PC system, and that I doubt > I'd hear the PC system sound *better* if I invested effort in getting > it there. Yeah, my audio chain is pretty good. It'd be great to have a > system that is more compact and versatile, which is where the PC system > will eventually play its trump card - it will be that, not sound > quality, in my opinion, because existing high end audio has reached a > very high evolutionary stage where it seems too good for the vast > majority of recorded material out there... > > So the deal is: I believe PC based systems will win out, and look > forward to it. But it's more due to convenience and versatility rather > than sound quality, which is pretty darn good in audiophile systems as > it is. > > > You mentioned you tend to enjoy your CD player much more then > > anything compter based. Ma be you should just try to figure > > out why. > > I know why. It's better because I have invested far more time and money > into it, and since I have now the SQB I can bid my time figuring out > what the next evolutionary step of the PC as the enabler for high end > audio may be. I have found the answer to link the two worlds perfectly: > the Squeezebox.
So we basically agreed :) I said that major real world advantage of playing ripped CDs on HDD based system vs. standalone CDP is convenience, not SQ. I also said that computer based system have only advantages over CDP - meaning not that CDP is flawed, but that computer based system is unlimited expandable, as Sean mentioned, can easily surpass CDP because we're not limited to 44.1/16. BTW, system using SB as a source is computer based, I don't know why do you consider SB as The Third Way. Music is streamed from hard drive, and SB is just a remote SPDIF interface module. -- 325xi simaudio nova cdp >> simaudio moon i-5 >> revel performa m20 via acoustic zen matrix reference ii and acoustic zen satori -planned additions:... >> deq2496 >> lavry da-10 >>...- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 325xi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32993 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
