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Re: Magnetic/hard-drive vs. optical/CD: Who has made the switch?

Howdy SE,

I have migrated to a hard drive based system. It consists of the following:

Maxtor 300g HHD
PC/XPpro running itunes
Wireless Squeezebox 2 music server/Slimserver 6.2 feeding a Birdland Odeon-AG Dac then on to the toobz!

I have owned a Sony SCD-777ES and a Cary 302 CDP among others, and have auditioned several other fine players including Metronome, Consonance, and the Lector Alphatop, which I consider the finest I have heard in my own home. The HHD based system sounds excellent and I enjoy the relative simplicity and ease of use. I am now listening to more music than ever. Do I believe the sound of my (unmodded) system equals or surpasses the finest CDP? No, but it is damn close.

I do not download music, but I guess I lose my digital "purist" card since I have ripped over 500 CDs to Apple Lossless format using iTunes. I still have several hundred yet to go, but my faves are "in da box". I am also considering converting my vinyl via my Terratec DMX 6Fire sound card and using Wavelab to save the digital file to CD or DVD for archival purposes and then playing it back on the HD. It takes forever to really do it right, but with care (and a Wright Sound phono stage!)the results are usually excellent. I only have 500 albums, so I should be finished by 2034... ;?)

Cheers!


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