I ask this because a friend in the hi-fi, home theatre and studio equipment manufacturing and design business seemed a little skeptical about the results of burning CDs to a hard drive on a computer and ending up with a high fidelity result. He has the experiential and educational background to have earned my respect.
I am posting here because, simply put, I want to reproduce what is on my CD as EXACTINGLY (sound wise) as I can onto the hard drive and then get it to my DAC as purely as possible. How do you guys do it ? I have read in other forums how USB introduces jitter and/or other issues into the digital bitstream. USB is not involved in my case, but I am wondering how well the interface between the CD drive of my computer and the motherboard and then the motherboad and the Disk handle the data flow. If FLAC is lossless and free in every way, why do the studios my friend works with use the "meridian lossless codec" ? Is lossless lossless? I don't want to drive myself crazy, but I do want to all of this process right because I like good sound almost as much as I like good music. The two together are magical. 1. Is there a best way to interface the Computer's CD and Hard disks to the motherboard? 2. Is FLAC the best way to go ? 3. Lots of other pertinent questions that I can't think of... How do you do it? -- brjoon1021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brjoon1021's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12136 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42435 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
