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In Reply to: Too Many Variables for Good and Reliable Audio Playback posted by Todd Krieger on May 20, 2015 at 20:52:39:
I basically lower my expectation with music from the computer - I have found the CD sounds better played on the CD player through the same DAC.
And you get on forums and they tell you to buy this or that software this or that cable - use a laptop that has no bloatware - never use Wifi etc. It's just easier to stick the CD in if one has to do all that crap and it still can't sound "better" than the original CD.
The computer is purely for convenience and frankly that's fine by me - I'll put all the one hit wonders and mediocre recordings onto the hard drive where sound quality isn't that great and for my favorites and or better recordings it's CD or Vinyl (as soon as I buy a turntable that is acceptable to me).
But the computer playback is fine for me and for casual listening but whatever "gestalt" factor and goosebump factor seems to get lost.
Good turntables/arm/cart/phono stage is just so damn expensive. But at least the money spent is worth it. Seeing $10,000 for puny ass computer audio boxes that sound mediocre at best is irritating. A while back I compared a Nottingham turntable through a moderately priced iFi phono stage against a computer audio DAC through $20,000 Avantegarde speakers - the Turntable ate the computer audio and the hi-res recordings for breakfast - the CA was downright unlistenable. The old beat up Pink Floyd LP was stunning. Actually the whole turntable rig was about $3,000 which is pricey but less than half the price if I remember correctly of the CA DAC. And those hi res downloads are not exactly cheap either.
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- RE: Too Many Variables for Good and Reliable Audio Playback - RGA 00:23:07 05/21/15 (2)
- RE: Too Many Variables for Good and Reliable Audio Playback - lokie 05:51:09 05/21/15 (1)
- RE: Too Many Variables for Good and Reliable Audio Playback - RGA 16:58:05 05/21/15 (0)
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