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In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player
Post Subject: Perhaps your hardware is different...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/17/2008
 jessie.dazzle wrote:
What would be really interesting would be to compare the hard drive to the CDP, while feeding the signal of both into the USB DAC. Obviously, getting a USB signal out of the CDP would be the challenge.

I agree that a ripped file sound might sound identical to CD played off a PC’s CD-ROM but it was not where I was arguing. I feel that a if have CD-ROM that drives an external DAC (regardless what kind DAC it is and how you access the DAC) and compare it with a good transport  driving the same external DAC then the good transport  + DAC do better quality. At least it was my experience. Perhaps in MAC world it is different or you are wrong, or I am wrong… That is why I propose to get one CD, let you to rip wide from it. Then send the CD to me and let me to play if with CD transport to my DAC and then A/D is back to a file. After that I think we can compare the files, uploading it to a public file share. I did this experiment a few times and I did found that I was not able to match with my PC CD-ROM the quality I would like to get. Perhaps your hardware is different and that is what I would like to learn….

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