In Reply to: Techie Question posted by Amphissa on September 19, 2014 at 08:28:57:
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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- RE: Techie Question - Chris from Lafayette 09:43:39 09/19/14 (13)
- RE: Techie Question - Amphissa 15:01:37 09/19/14 (4)
- RE: Techie Question - Tony Lauck 19:03:10 09/19/14 (0)
- Well and good, but some of us like to try to correlate our listening with "reality" [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 18:11:45 09/19/14 (2)
- Reality is what you hear [nt] - Amphissa 19:40:12 09/19/14 (1)
- Well, in a sense - I'm always eager to know what reality I'll hear tomorrow [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 20:28:04 09/19/14 (0)
- RE: Techie Question - ahendler 12:21:52 09/19/14 (7)
- Alan - all of what you say is true - Chris from Lafayette 13:15:15 09/19/14 (0)
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