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Re: The end of CDs?

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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