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In Reply to: Magnetic/hard-drive vs. optical/CD: Who has made the switch? posted by Srajan Ebaen on October 30, 2005 at 08:10:47:
i notice i get a lot of musical satisfaction listening to music playing from itunes on my vaio laptop pc. no external dac, amps and speakers, just the tiny ones on the laptop and i can listen to it continously and often feel the urge to groove with the music.i still have the scd-1, scd-xa9000es, and the new dvp-ns9100es.
i also have the option to run a usb cable out from the vaio to an usb-to-optical converter into my av amlifier, when i need to play it louder.
playing continuously on the laptop, sonic quality is more consistent track to track than all other optical disc machines i have tried. sure it is more detailed and transparent on all my three optical players, but the problem is they never sound the same if cued up and played using different methods. once cued up properly, the sonic quality only last for that current track. as soon as the next track starts, some jitter problems comes in again, puuting a brake on the effortless sense of ease, introducing some fatigueness, reducing soundstaging and bring forward soundstaging perspective. i always have to eject / reload disc and cued up the track (using a certain method, and no remote) to make it sound optimal. using harddrives bring in a lot of the sound consistency necessary for hassle free listening.
i have probably 30 cds i ripped to hard-drive using itunes
all are ripped as wavefiles.
when music is being tracked properly (more so on a harddisk) the satisfaction level is not diminished by tiny amps and speakers playing at low volumes.
there's something inherently wrong about the way optical disc machines go about retrieving data. only the meitner combo has been able to solve this problem. but that is an ultra expensive system and one still cannot justify spending that much money when sacd releases have run dry.
harddrives are affordable solutions, minus the fatigue of optical disc drives and minus the colourations of needle-groove interaction of vinyl playback. the sooner we move to harddrives the better.
see my previous post on this subject.
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