pablolie;183728 Wrote: > > ... Maybe you 'understand computers' but don't yet know of the > > advances in DAW technology (shove a good audio interface on a > > PC - and it's a DAW!) in fairly recent times? > > Oh geez. I do have a Creative Audigy connected to my silent, $4k built > to order computer, you know. I use it to record myself (I am a hobby > precussionist). The sound is fx-ish at best - spun out to please the > gamers that want bass and treble and artificial fireworks. The bigger > the subwoo the better etc. > > No, I don't buy into that theory at all. It may be 24 bits, it's still > rubbish compared to the sound I'll get out of my CD player through my > amplifier. > > A friend of mine has a professional studio. Audigy equipment he uses > NOT. You want top end sound at that level, be willing to spend $50k > plus in your reproduction chain - prior to getting anywhere close to > your monitor speakers.
I'm sorry but that is NOT right. You don't need to spend much more than $1.5-$2k to get a superb sounding PC-based system these days using m-Audio or MOTU (or several others). You can't compare CD-players to these devices. It's chalk and cheese. For a start, you are listening to a CD! Just how much processing (digital AND analogue) do you think has happened to the music before it got anywhere near being a CD. I've done these tests and an original untreated single track recording coming off one of the high-end cards through a quality DAC/amp/speaker combo -even at 16/44.1 - always sounds better than the same track burnt to a CDR and played back through the same replay chain on high-end CD players. The better the cd player the closer it gets...but - go to 24-bit and these cards will trash the CD player - any cd-player. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32993 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
