Hmmmm What an interesting article! The single most important piece is the DAC! If you are converting CD to FLAC. Since hard drive space isn't a concern anymore, I've moved onto aiff format with the added benefit of tagging. If you are like also converting LP's into aiff/flac format. Then your turntable setup will suck up lots of cash just like the DAC. The only PC component is a professional sound card ie RME Hammerfall or Lynx Audio.
My setup: PC SqueezePlay config to use Windows WDM-KS Windows Server 2011 using Sever 7.8 Linn Sondek turntable McIntosh MDA1000, McIntosh C2300,........ All I can is on playback the 24bit 96Hz file sound damn close to the original recording. True the bulk of the cost was in stereo equipment not in the PC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blacsno's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29362 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101023 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
