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In Reply to: RE: PC Audio vs. CD player posted by Tom Schuman on September 13, 2015 at 13:38:42:
Broadly speaking my CD replay compared to PC is pretty much identical (it uses the same DAC). Not absolutely identical but the minute differences that exist are insignificant IMO.
I won't comment yet on the convenience aspect of PC replay as I am still in the process of building (ripping) my music library. However I am pretty sure that supporters of this aspect in this thread like John Ellison are correct.
There are two points that have pursuaded me to bite the PC bullet:
1. I have long term doubts about the continued availabilty of CD/DVD drives. The large OEM manufacturers of CD drives have mostly pulled out meanng that most new CD players have to use DVD drives. That's OK for the moment but the trend in computing is away from optical drives and I expect that at some point the necessary lasers will be diffult to ource if the chip manufacturers pull out. Chipsets cannot be manufactured at a cottage industry level so "big" economics will define the future. Bear in mind the tiny size of the market for our hobby. So even the ability to rip CDs using computer optical drives is likely to be eventually curtailed as the industry abandons the format.
In the above respect SACD is already experiencing a slow death.Not only are there now few plants that can press the discs but the major (sole?) OEM supplier of SACD decoding chips (Sony) ceased their production some years ago and the back stocks are now virtually exhausted. This has meant that previously available OEM SACD mechanisms can no longer be produced. So the future of hi-rez will surely lie outside of any optical drive solution.
2. Computer audio gives access to music formats not available via CD or SACD. As an example I recently bought an SACD which sounded fine. However I was able to buy and download the same recording in 24/44.1 format which was the original format of the master recording. It sounds better than the SACD leaving open to query the sample rate conversion process used for transfer to DSD. NB : most SACDs are transfers from non-DSD original recording formats.
So the future is PC/Mac audio or the equivalent "turnkey" proprietory solutions which are also computer based.
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