In Reply to: Re: The end of CDs? posted by Bob Neill on February 10, 2007 at 10:17:35:
Well Bob I have a question - Audio Note has USB capability and assuming you use lossless compression and run it through an AN DAC you still should get exceptional results. I have a small headphone DAC/AMP from Head-fi (Total Bithead) which bypasses the laptop's crappola noises and lets the external DAC do all the work. Now granted this machine is $199.00 so you can;t expect the world but I use this thing every single day for several hours and the sound even with relatively revealing HD 600s is quite nice indeed.I loaded all my CD's onto my external hard drive before coming to Korea and put them all in lossless format (which takes up big space). I have hear many $1000.00 - $3000.00 players that frankly didn't impress me any more than what I am getting from this 4 AAA battery rig.
I don't know how good the USB portion of the AN DAC is because their technology suggests a one times through play but I should think in theory bypassing a tranport completely may actually be better.
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