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RE: Techie Question

My set-up is as follows: I have a RAID drive connected to my iMac in another room. This RAID drive however is shared with the Mac Mini in my actual listening room via wired ethernet. Yes, I do feel that the result sounds better played back from the computer (even directly from iTunes) than from my $2,000+ Marantz universal player. Yes - it is mysterious. All the more so, because my Marantz pre-pro is acting as my DAC in both cases. (Both the Mac Mini and the Universal player are connected to the pre-pro via HDMI.) I've also heard all the horror stories about internal computer noise that might get picked up, thereby muddying the signal - if its there, I'm happy to say that I don't notice it at all!

So. . . I would just be guessing as to why the computer playback sounds better to me. But I do have my guesses - mainly, that the memory of the computer can hold larger blocks of data than the buffer of a CD player can, and therefore is somehow more stable. But that's just a guess.


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