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In Reply to: RE: Are CD Players Even Relevant Anymore? posted by jaydacus on September 10, 2016 at 07:42:35
Erm OK However I've Yet to hear a "puter based setup that outsounds a reasonably good CD based setup.
Regardless of energetic bleats/claims to the contrary.
Possibly/presumably It exists (holy Grail?) Anything is ultimately possible :-)
But in the dozen or so setups of proud owners .. I've heard, not even close.
Please, Spare me the righteous indignation.. it's boring.
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"Erm OK However I've Yet to hear a "puter based setup that outsounds a reasonably good CD based setup.
Regardless of energetic bleats/claims to the contrary.
Possibly/presumably It exists (holy Grail?) Anything is ultimately possible :-)
But in the dozen or so setups of proud owners .. I've heard, not even close.
Please, Spare me the righteous indignation.. it's boring."
I don't want to start a flaming war, but this seems like really backwards thinking. Why would the technology of reading pits and flats from the shiny surface of a disk to retrieve 1's and 0's developed in the late 70's/ early 80's be so impossible to duplicate using 2016 computer technology?
What you did or didn't hear is these setups may have been due to other differences between your system and theirs, paradigm lock, confirmation bias, or some combination thereof. The statement that a setup that could "outsound" a reasonably good CD based setup would be a "Holy Grail" seems outlandishly close minded given the almost limitless possibilities being offered by transport/ DAC systems that don't happen to glean their 1's and 0's from an aluminum coated piece of plastic.
Thinking long term, I am becoming more against USB solutions. Is there even a generic driver for USB audio?
Once you have toslink or coaxial S/PDIF output, however you get it, SHOULD be fine (although there still appears to be differences).
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