Hello. first time, long time. consider me 2 months past ignorant of even knowing stuff like sb existed. I'm sortive old and sortive oblivious. Furthermore, I had been using my car stereo as the source of hi-fi enjoyment.
When I bought a laptop, we asked the fella "how can we hook this up to our home stereo" He suggested using a y-adapter and headphone out ->>> Receiver. "Uh, isn't that going to sound pretty bad, with the amplified signal from the Headphone jack?" "Nah, it'll sound great." Guy at radio shack said the same. Well, there was lots of hum. Was it groud loop? I don't know. But I ran on battery only to test, and still there. So anyway, you'd be surprised how few normal people even realize this sb and other products like it exist. I was clued in by an associate, after asking lots of folks if there was an alternative and trying to search the interweb, apparently with poor key word choices. Ok, back to post. So, not knowing better 3 months ago, I ripped my cds (wma lossless) using the Compaq Laptop cd drive. Here's my question: Pretend I have good "music-ears", and tell me what I should listen for, in order to determine a degraded version, due to using a sub-optimal drive for ripping. (if anything) My Home equipment is very very average. Having spent 10k on the car stereo 7 yrs ago, I felt, at least for now, that a modest home theatre would be fine. Maybe with cheap speakers, I won't tell a difference from using a laptop to burn? I only burn certain tracks If it's worth it, I'd reburn (and probably use FLAC, although the current wma is cool, even w/o full remote fuctionality) thank you for reading this and for your help. *********** ooops, I may have posted in the wrong forum. I see there is a rip forum. Maybe some Mod will move this for me? Until then, one of you Audiophiles can addrees the nuances! -- Actuary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Actuary's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11391 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34963 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
