No I'm not late to the party at all.. I'm honestly not anywhere near as anal as some of the people I know in the audio world. I'm usually happy playing 320k songs. I watch some of these guys striving for "perfect synergy" in every IC and power cord, and laugh. The only reason I am even getting more info on wav/FLAC files, is to PROVE to these guys, that a music server is the way to go. Some of these guys have 2000-3000 and one guy I know has 5000 CDs.... An entire wall of CDs. It's crazy to me. But I also know its just like a heroin fiend, the "setup" is half the HIGH. I've been friends with some of these guys for 5-10 years, and I watch them upgrade, swap 50 cables, get the $1000 power cord for their CD players... It all looks like too much WORK. they will never be happy of finished, always chasing that last 2% or (that next high)
I see myself being pretty lucky. I can sit back and listen to a 128k song (knowing it sounds like shit) and not really care at all. I listen to the "music" not the image, or placement of each instrument, just the overall music. A cabinet building friend once said to a client that was complaining about the finish on his newly installed wall unit.... "Stop looking at the hole, stand back and look at the doughnut" I'd guess only 10% of my personal listening music is FLAC quality. I listen to Pandora most of the time now. Also, thanks for the spell-check... I fixed it. -- Toy Maker (2) Squeezebox3's - (1) Transporter2 - 7TB Acer Home Server - iPad - iPeng And more toys than any one person should be aloud to own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toy Maker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88364 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
