cliveb;436691 Wrote: > The tragic thing about these HiFi reviewers who diss "computer-based" > playback and lossless compression is that they don't appear to > appreciate a couple of basic facts: > > 1. A CD player *is* a computer. It's got a CPU, some support chips, an > operating system (of sorts), and it moves digital data around. It > happens to use a spinning optical disc as its data source instead of a > spinning magnetic disk. > > 2. The data on a CD is as much encoded as a losslessly compressed file. > 8-to-14 modulation (as found on CDs) and whatever algorithms are used by > the likes of FLAC and ALAC are just different ways of storing digital > information in a convenient format.
Absolutely Correct! I still think a lot of these reviewers have not caught on to the fact that wireless streaming is in fact the highest of the high end. Using such a system opens things up to a world of convenience, fidelity, and allows the use of sophisticated DSP machines like the TACT to do sophisticated room and speaker correction. When you couple that to a top notch asynchronous DAC at the back end, the sky is the limit, and it doesn't have to cost the moon to get there. -- Phoenix Media Room: VPI HW-19MK4,Cardas Heart Ruby, Fidelity Research Fr64s tonearm;SB3, Tact RCS 2.0, Benchmark Dac1; Audible Illusions Mk3; Two Bel 1001's Bridged; Aerial Accoustice 10ts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phoenix's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64972 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
