It is my intention to beef up my music system over the next while. I had an ok (very good to me as teenager into young twenties) setup 20 odd years ago. I used to get what hifi back then, good to see its still around.
From the new stuff I am just learning getting back into the tech side, a mediocre cd player with a digital output fed to a very good DAC, or indeed a laptop with lossless digital file fed to a good DAC should be better than a very good cd player that the DAC is less quality than say the seperate unit.If so a 100 pound blu ray player with a 400 pound DAC may beat a 500 pound cd player, or my windows media player 12 FLAC files may also.
Am I correct here or is the info going in to the brain wrong?
From the new stuff I am just learning getting back into the tech side, a mediocre cd player with a digital output fed to a very good DAC, or indeed a laptop with lossless digital file fed to a good DAC should be better than a very good cd player that the DAC is less quality than say the seperate unit.If so a 100 pound blu ray player with a 400 pound DAC may beat a 500 pound cd player, or my windows media player 12 FLAC files may also.
Am I correct here or is the info going in to the brain wrong?