Well, I buy into the explanation as to why hi-res recordings don't bring
benefits given 'here'
(https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html), with a rather
good 'video demonstration' (https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml). In any
case, my ageing ears probably limit matters. I do have
I feel that FLACs do sound better than CD, in my case mainly because I
never got a CD player >$250 ..ha ha ...
Besides the hard drive, there are no moving parts - no 'jitter' ..
recordings are bit perfect, and seem to have no harshness..at least for
me !
I don't even have a dedicated CD
pablolie wrote:
> I have a rather high powered amp. If I turn the Benchmark DAC2 to 100%
> volume the SB Touch can't play at more than 55. I tend to keep the DAC2
> at 50% and that allows me to crank the Touch volume up to 80 (that's
> entertainingly loud but not annoyingly loud), but typically
I have a rather high powered amp. If I turn the Benchmark DAC2 to 100%
volume the SB Touch can't play at more than 55. I tend to keep the DAC2
at 50% and that allows me to crank the Touch volume up to 80 (that's
entertainingly loud but not annoyingly loud), but typically more like
72.
Do those
RobbH wrote:
> .. (There was a story that the capacity was dictated by the wife of
> Sony's president, who insisted that Beethoven's Symphony #9 had to fit
> on one disc.) Like most new technologies that seem at first to be
> perfect, because they are free of the obvious problems of past
>