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In Reply to: RE: 2015 California Audio Show impressions posted by Todd Krieger on August 17, 2015 at 11:20:00
CD's sounds their best on a CD player , no storage medium i have ever heard trumps them on CD's.
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Compact Disks are a storage medium.
(Lol @ the ridiculous things people come up with.)
The disk doesn't make any sounds, the DA converter does.
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I'm NOT blaming computer audio: Even the turntables didn't sound much different to me.That is sort of a good outcome IMO.
Edits: 08/17/15
The more things change, the more they sound the same it seems.
Infamous sockpuppet
would choose to demo said $100,000 system using music stored on a laptop. NOT!
Not a laptop..... But maybe a "music server"......
I know someone in Scottsdale who has a system North of 30 grand that's server (and vinyl) based.....
That's a laptop computer on the second shelf running Windows 7 with JRiver Media Center.
Ripped DVD's being played (ripped via Playstation)
Picture is from AXPONA 2015 but he ran the identical system in San Francisco last weekend.
AND IT SOUNDED FABULOUS!!!
Bricasti president Brian Zolner uses that laptop only for playing music and has it configured as such: no Internet connectivity, no virus protection and other stuff running in the background, and an external power supply better than the typical one provided with a laptop. There's more to it than that, but for his purpose of using it for shows it works well.
Brian
So much music, so little time!
You don't need a Playstation to pop the music off DVDs, just a DVD-ripping program running on a computer.
The Playstation is to rip the music files from an SACD, and then you need special software to debundle those streams.
JM
DSD files on SACD, PCM on BluRay and DVD.
Music on Vinyl.
Hard to keep it straight.
;-)
I have to admit, that while I have ADHD and have trouble sitting still for more than 10 seconds, I couldn't for the life me wonder why everyone was sitting down LISTENING to the music???
That, to me, is the biggest conundrum of all ;-)
(Let's me real here: Every loudspeaker looked spanking NEW and we all know, they need to be BROKEN in first before you can listen to them for long periods!)
This rant aside, the tube gear still won me over and THEY are so nice to look at, too.
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