Andre,
No, I understood what you were stating, but Im such a junky for audio
equipment in any capacity and Im familiar with Nads reputation for keeping
things simple without too many bells and whistles. Im also an audio file,
but I began to incorporate home theater A/V into my system back in 91 with
an Onkyo 70 Pro integra receiver with discreet amplification.
For the most part, I fully agree with you about home theater systems not
that great for audio files. However, when you get into higher end systems,
at least with a few out there, they tend to accommodate audio listening
quite well along with the home theater features. But, that typically means
spending $1800 to almost $4000 for a good system.
Quick note I had a great 6 channel 170 watts per channel rms THX Parasound
power amp that I sold two years ago and kind of regret now, but tend to like
to change up audio equipment every few years
Sorry to get so far off topic.
Best Regards,
Cornell
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:59:52 +0200
Hi Cornell
The Nad c320b is an integrated amplifier. I do not need a home theter
system so I went for a simple amplifier to listen to music.
This is a very simple integrated amp with no bells or whistles, like we have
ben expecting from NAD over the years. I don't know what their home theater
systems are at all.
Perhaps I should have stated this in my original message. The reason I
asked these questions is that I wanted to listen to high quality music and
not home theater.
And I must say that the few times I listened to music on home theater
systems the sound quality was horrible to put it mildly!!
Andre
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Sent: 29 March 2007 03:51 AM
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Subject: RE: SOUND QUALITY OF DIFFERENT AUDIO PLAYERS
Hi,
is the Nad a power amp or a receiver? In other words, do you have your
computer system and stereo or home theater integrated?
I did this awhile ago until I realized my phone jack in family room wasn't
powerful enough to handle DSL for the nt, so I temporarily move my computer
system back into my office.
I am however considering a 'Home Thater ' computer to integrate into my
Onkyo 989 V2, and also considering upgrading it to a newer B&K audio system
that handles HD TV, HD audio files and wireless communication with the PC.
being an audio file with 'home audio', I must say I don't quite have the
same ear for audio on my computer, because I can't tell much difference in
sound quality from using WMP, REal Player or ITunes other than ease of use.
Best Regards,
Cornell
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Subject: RE: SOUND QUALITY OF DIFFERENT AUDIO PLAYERS
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:19:37 +0200
Hi Kevin
The setup I use here is of course my PC with win xp and windows media
player 11.
I have a emagic emi 2/6 usb professional soundcard running into a
newly-purchased NAD c320b.
So I am not using computer speakers but a proper hifi system.
So the soundcard in this stage is completely isolated from the computer.
Oh yes - on windows media player 11 is there a way to completel y turn
off
the equalizer? I know there is a certain menu item to not make the
equalizer show but is it then turned off completely?
Andre
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Sent: 28 March 2007 08:55 PM
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Subject: Re: SOUND QUALITY OF DIFFERENT AUDIO PLAYERS
Hi Andre.
In my opinion windows media player provides a better listen than winamp.
There's really very little difference but specifically if you listen to live
albums or concept albums, windows media player is far superior to winamp in
playing the tracks seemlessly. I prefer windows media player personally and
I believe you won't get a third party product to play a proprietary format
like WMA better than a player produced by the company that produced the WMA
format itself.
With regards to your other question, no, a computer won't play a CD as well
as a good CD player. I've had a number of machines over the years and find
the transports are more flimsy than a good quality CD player and don't hold
the CD as well. This can lead to jitter and distortion. A computer's
CD-ROM is primarily designed to play data CD's and so there was never a need
originally to worry about this aspect. Incidentally, I've found laptops to
have the better transports which surprised me but they do tend to have a
raised centre onto which you can firmly place the disc and so eliminate
jitter.
After the transport you've got the processing of the signal which is going
through a dirty box of electrics in close proximity and generally feeding
finally into a not too wonderful soundcard. A good quality CD player will
have more separation between the digital processing and power supply to
remove RF generated by all that hot electrics.
Best way to listen to a collection of music on a computer in my opinion is
to get a decent USB soundcard and connect to a quality amplifier, preferably
using a digital connection.
Regards.
Kevin
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From: "Andri van Deventer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:40 AM
Subject: SOUND QUALITY OF DIFFERENT AUDIO PLAYERS
> Hi all
>
> I know that I am now probably starting a rather difficult and perhaps >
controversial thread, but I really want to get an answer to my questions.
>
> 1. Is there a difference in the audio quality between winamp and
windows
> media player? I like using windows media player but I do want the best
> audio quality. I put all my cds in windows media lossless format so I >
want > lossless sound out of the audio player also.
>
> 2. Would you get the same sound quality out of playing audio cds on a
>
computer than you would get playing them on a good quality cd player?
>
> I am not really interested in saving my music in wav format as you
cannot
> seem to get media info on a wav file.
> Andre
>
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