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In Reply to: RE: Moving all CDs to network drive..advice? posted by DWPC on May 05, 2015 at 09:37:03
That's my advice. I ripped everything to my PC and was running Logitech Touches for a few years.
It's a PITA. I disliked maintaining all the files, backing stuff up, messing with the network.
I bought a very nice yamaha SACD player and now I'm happy playing discs.
"A lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
-Mark Twain
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Several days ago, several people were listening to some jazz off of CD.... And during the acoustic textures and brushwork amongst the sweet and subtle sounds, I hear a comment, "You can't get sound like that out of a PC"......
The catch is a good CD source.... They're not particularly common.... But once you get one, any thoughts about going the server route will go "poof!!" ....
> Several days ago, several people were listening to some jazz off of CD.... And during the acoustic textures and brushwork amongst the sweet and subtle sounds, I hear a comment, "You can't get sound like that out of a PC"......
> But once you get one, any thoughts about going the server route will go "poof!!" ....
Todd - Could you justify this? A CD is a digital storage device that has pits in its surface that are scanned by a laser. Inevitably, as the laser scans in real time and only once, some digits are missed - hence the error correction circuits that make some CD players better than others.
By comparison, if music files are stored on a hard drive, it is much easier to extract the information with 100% accuracy, so no need for error correction. The stream of information is then sent to or collected by the streamer or DAC. If the music is stored on a PC and sent to the DAC by the PC, then yes, the sound quality will be seriously compromised. If however, the data is called for by the streamer from a NAS for example, the donor device controls the flow of information and should be better than a CD player provided that the files are WAV or FLAC or other lossless format.
The sound from music stored on a hard drive SHOULD and COULD be better than the same music stored in pits on the surface of a CD. The end result will depend entirely on the quality of the equipment used and a PC will compromise the potential. Best to store on a NAS and keep the PC well out of it, except perhaps to control the selection of music.
If a CD is ripped to hard drive, the end result could and should still be better than playing the CD player directly into a DAC. This is because the ripper will first identify the disc, then establish from internet sites the PRECISE bit count that it is looking for and will then read the CD, perhaps several times, until it has found every last bit. A CD laser simply can't do that.
Peter
I agree,
which Yamaha? I have the CD-S1000, it is magnificent!
I gave up ripping CDs and got a sonos connect with deezer elite FLAC streaming service, haven't bought a CD in a long time.
CDS-S2100
"A lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
-Mark Twain
nice. I use a Bel Canto Cd2 into an old bel canto DAC3 for cd. The sacds on my Yamaha are exquisite. Very well build and sort of esoteric since not many would think of Yamaha for high end sacd..
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