"Everything Matters" should have a (TM) after it. Soft of like "Best Buy"(TM) to indicate a slogan that is patently not true but may be useful in marketing.
Because not everything actually matters. Not the type of CPU or RAM or hard disc in the computer serving digital music files, nor the ethernet interface or cable connecting it to the network, nor the switches or routers which propagate those files have anything to with the eventual sonic quality of those files. They either work as they should according to the specifications to which they are designed to adhere, or they don't. But there is no subtle distinction between a Seagate 7200 RPMS SATA III drive and a WD 5900 RPMS SATA II drive. If that were true, computing as we know it would simply not function. Digital music files do not get to be "special" and behave different than other digital data. The same files delivered over the same network to the same transport to the same DAC to the same analog system do not just get to be better or worse quality. So, either the analog system changed after the power event or the files are not being processed in the same way in the digital domain. *OR* the differences you perceive simply aren't there, but I'm not discounting that you are hearing a difference.. I don't use iTunes (or any Apple products for that matter), so I have no idea what it may or may not do in LMS. I always thought that it was simply a way of accessing those files using the iTunes database. Is it possible that there is a transcoding difference if iTunes is installed or not? You mentioned originally that you used iTunes for ripping, but not to what format. Win7Pro(x64)[3.3Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD system, 15TB storage], LMS 7.9.0 -> Logitech Squeezebox Classic V.3 -> Cambridge Audio DacMagic -> NAD C160 -> 2 x NAD C272 -> Quad 22L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101788 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
