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Grottyash:No, as idc said " A 'bit perfect rip of a CD to PC' and transmission of a 'bit perfect', unmixed or tampered with signal from PC to DAC." It's the second part to which I'm referring. Surely the transmission is via a cable.
Yes but this thread has been focussing on how to stop the PC from changing the signal BEFORE it squirts it down the cable. If the cable itself is doing something (which as I said is an argument you're welcome to go and have elsewhere as this thread is specifically NOT a cable argument!) then there's nothing you can do about that on the PC itself.
Either way, surely you want to eliminate all possible sources of data corruption but your viewpoint seems to imply that you might as well not worry about how good the ripping is or whether the PC is changing the signal, which seems a little odd. By that token if it's all about the cable then who cares what CD player or pre-amp you buy as surely they can't overcome the limitations of your cables?
That doesn't seem entirely logical to me...
Wrong, the. I'm just querying the bit perfect transmission part. Surely you understand that if we have bit-perfect transmission, i.e the file that arrives at the dac is exactly the same as the one that leaves, then that cables per se can't possibly have any influence on the sound whether it be optical, usb or coax. Yet I hear differences. Am I not allowed to say that?
Not querying the first part at all, and I am certainly not saying what you mistakenly inferred I did.
Grottyash:No, as idc said " A 'bit perfect rip of a CD to PC' and transmission of a 'bit perfect', unmixed or tampered with signal from PC to DAC." It's the second part to which I'm referring. Surely the transmission is via a cable.
Yes but this thread has been focussing on how to stop the PC from changing the signal BEFORE it squirts it down the cable. If the cable itself is doing something (which as I said is an argument you're welcome to go and have elsewhere as this thread is specifically NOT a cable argument!) then there's nothing you can do about that on the PC itself.
Either way, surely you want to eliminate all possible sources of data corruption but your viewpoint seems to imply that you might as well not worry about how good the ripping is or whether the PC is changing the signal, which seems a little odd. By that token if it's all about the cable then who cares what CD player or pre-amp you buy as surely they can't overcome the limitations of your cables?
That doesn't seem entirely logical to me...
Wrong, the. I'm just querying the bit perfect transmission part. Surely you understand that if we have bit-perfect transmission, i.e the file that arrives at the dac is exactly the same as the one that leaves, then that cables per se can't possibly have any influence on the sound whether it be optical, usb or coax. Yet I hear differences. Am I not allowed to say that?
Not querying the first part at all, and I am certainly not saying what you mistakenly inferred I did.