Do you still prefer your CD player to other sources?

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The_Lhc

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manicm said:
Lhc - I will quote myself on a CDP - the transport has to stream the data to the internal DAC - and pure CD transports have been around for eons.
I know that's what you said, I quoted you saying it, I don't know what you're trying to achieve by repeating it though?
While technically correct, since no-one used the term ... for simply playing audio from a PC hard drive 10 years ago, I, like mikeparker, will be pedantic, semantic and argumentative and will reserve the term streaming for playing digital audio from a networked source
You're changing the argument, nobody mentioned a PC playing music from its own hard drive, my original comment referred to an NP30 digital audio player (which is perfectly capable of playing from a network) playing from an attached hard drive. I would still regard that as streaming from the hard drive to the player, it just isn't using the network to do it.
 

mikeparker59

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The first time I recall the term streaming being used was in relation to video coming via the internet , so have always , as I said maybe incorrectly,considered that in streaming the source of the file being played was remote from the device playing it back, as opposed to being stored on a local drive attached to or part of the playback equipment, hence my saying that I don't consider files on a hard drive directly attached to my NP30 as being streamed.

What would I call it, I don't know maybe reading the files off the hard drive?
 

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