spoon;353529 Wrote: > Each time you save your word document to a HDD and reload it - it is > exactly the same as you saved it (unless the HDD is broken), audio is > no different, every HDD on the market is more than adequate for audio. > In audiophile circles it is put about 'an audio suitable hdd' based on > who knows what, speed, price? Any HDD you can buy now is fast enough to > playback 100's of uncompressed audio streams so that is a false > argument.
The only conceivable "audiophile" attribute of an HDD would be its acoustic noise...which should be as low as possible - just like the fan(s) in your PC. People who think that the HDD performance can affect the sound may be using a PC card to replay their audio... in this sense it is possible, since the disk is just one of many components of the whole system that can interfere (m-board, ram, HDD, PSU, sound card. This is why we use an TCP-IP packet-based external streaming approach with our SB's (etc)... no part of the server PC hardware can influence or change the quality of what goes into the player! As you imply, this is exactly why computers and networks just work - bits only get changed by design, NOT by "accident". The data packets will either arrive in a timely fashion with the right data inside or they will get resent until they do! Assuming a good rip to the storage medium of your choice, and a well-behaved power supply for the server (and ALL the other equipment in ones home!) that is not spewing RFI into the mains, all that's left to worry about is what happens IN the player and everything downstream of it (DAC etc). The upstream server hardware/software and network is completely out of the sound quality equation. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41268 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
