cliveb;436691 Wrote: > The tragic thing about these HiFi reviewers who diss "computer-based" > playback and lossless compression is that they don't appear to > appreciate a couple of basic facts: > > 1. A CD player *is* a computer. It's got a CPU, some support chips, an > operating system (of sorts), and it moves digital data around. It > happens to use a spinning optical disc as its data source instead of a > spinning magnetic disk. > > 2. The data on a CD is as much encoded as a losslessly compressed file. > 8-to-14 modulation (as found on CDs) and whatever algorithms are used by > the likes of FLAC and ALAC are just different ways of storing digital > information in a convenient format.
Clive - So true... ha ha ha! I've just read page 36 of this months Hi-Fi World. I must get treatment... A one-line UI and no 24-bit anyone? - no, I thought not... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64972 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
