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Do you stream hi-res music or download hi-res tracks? We want your opinions!
why is it a joke to use a laptop as a source...just shows ignorance of the subject matter.
EDIT oh and three posts in seven years, two of them a rant. Well done.
EDIT oh and three posts in seven years, two of them a rant. Well done.
glenaim said:
On LP perhaps, but on CD, what is there that a Linn CD player can get extra that a computer drive couldn't?
Never yet have I uploaded a disc to copy to hard drive that in replay sounded the poorer. Some of the best playback I heard yet was off a 4GB TDK flash drive with four WAV tracks for a demo I had a couple of years back.
With vinyl your assumption is probably right, but digital has been done and dusted for years. The basic abilities to read 1s and 0s off a CD has been a gimme for ages. Speakers and amp have the greater sway here.
I agree with the record spot. Digital sources you're looking at relatively subtle differences. And an ultra budget digital source should still get the fundamentals of pitch accuracy, stability, tonal balance, dynamics right. You're then talking about fairly subtle differences in naturalness and clarity. For analogue sources the source is about equally as important as the speakers. Price and sound quality in analogue sources and speakers are largely independent of each other - so it's not as if you can set some budgetary guidelines for best overall system sound quality. And then there's the amplification. I've heard some not so good amps spoiling what would otherwise have been a fine sounding system.
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