On 10/13/06, A. Pagaltzis <[email protected]> wrote:
You're telling me that with a general-purpose CPU running at
1.5GHz, backed by a bus that's capable of pushing a few dozen (or
hundred?) GByte/sec, it's still necessary to dedicate specialised
silicon to get a 100KByte/sec stream from the platter to the DAC
reliably?
No, it's not. It's hateful software that's to blame, all right.
OK OK I'll give you that one. But really, I'm of the "can't hear
anything better than 192 mp3" camp - and even then it's something of a
stretch.
Go on, kill my first born son. I probably deserve it.
