In Reply to: RE: Who says ordinary cpmputer audio sounds better than a cd player? posted by Tom Schuman on August 31, 2014 at 12:25:38:
I've always thought most of the hype surrounding computer audio was about the interface, storage, and convenience...
I wouldn't call it hype. Computer audio can sound at least as good as a good CDP, and even better if playing 'hi-res' music files... provided the original source material was well produced and mastered.
..(if you can call ripping hundreds of CDs with titles into a PC convenient!).
But you rip just once! And then you put your CDs away and never have to swap them in and out of a CDP every time you want to hear a particular album.
Anyway ultimately the real arbiter of whether a cd sounds good is the recording values, which no upsampling is going to improve.
True. It appears that the whole 'upsampling' craze for CDPs took place back in the 1990s. Are manufacturers still pushing that gimmick? But with computer audio as with CDs, you can't escape a poor recording.
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