ralphpnj;572013 Wrote: > This is exactly my point: > > When reviewed by either Stereophile or TAS just about all of Logitech's > networked music players have gotten very positive reviews and sometimes > even more such as a listing in the Recommended Component Section but > nonetheless music streaming and computer based digital audio are more > often than not treated as an interesting divergence rather than a > serious means of obtaining truly "high end" sound. > >
I don't think this is exactly accurate. TAS has given quite a bit of space recently to digital audio, especially USB playback. Of course, they tend to focus on the very high end equipment - DACs costing $3000 and up, and Amarra, but I think they have come to regard digital streaming as a serious means of obtaining high end sound - especially when we talk about files of 96K res and above. There are at least a couple of regular reviewers there who are proponents of digital audio. Steven Stone and Neil Gader have both been quite positive about digital audio in many cases, and definitely do regard it as true "high-end". At Stereophile, even Michael Fremmer, who's a big analogue proponent (not anti-digital) just reviewed software for digitizing LP's and recommended it's use, saying the 24/192 recordings he produced were of such good quality that he wouldn't have a problem listening to them on a regular basis, and that the use of software to apply the RIAA curve gave superior results to that of phono preamp circuitry. Of course he was also using expensive software and a phono preamp costing thousands, but that's his normal mode. -- firedog Tranquil PC fanless WHS server running SqueezeServer; SB Touch slaved to Empirical Audio Pace Car; MF X-150 amp, MF V DAC3, Devore Gibbon Super 8 Speakers; Mirage MS-12 sub; Dual 506 + Ortofon 20 (occasional use); sometimes use PC with M-Audio 192 as digital source. SB Boom in second room. Arcam CD82 which I don't use anymore, even though it's a very good player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ firedog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81346 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
