firedog;572220 Wrote: > I don't think this is exactly accurate. TAS has given quite a bit of > space recently to digital audio, especially USB playback. Of course, > they tend to focus on the very high end equipment - DACs costing $3000 > and up, and Amarra, but I think they have come to regard digital > streaming as a serious means of obtaining high end sound - especially > when we talk about files of 96K res and above. > > There are at least a couple of regular reviewers there who are > proponents of digital audio. Steven Stone and Neil Gader have both been > quite positive about digital audio in many cases, and definitely do > regard it as true "high-end". Robert Harley has written several times > about what great sound he gets from his music server (Lynx soundcard) > and Berkley Alpha DAC, especially with 176k tracks. > > At Stereophile, even Michael Fremmer, who's a big analogue proponent > (not anti-digital) recently reviewed Pure Vinyl software for digitizing > LP's and recommended it's use, saying the 24/192 recordings he produced > were of such good quality that he wouldn't have a problem listening to > them on a regular basis (he didn't say they were as good as the > original), and that the use of software to apply the RIAA curve gave > superior results to that of phono preamp circuitry. Of course, he was > also using expensive software and a phono preamp costing thousands, but > that's his normal mode.
Yes you're quite about the positive coverage that has appeared and continues to appear. No argument. My point is that since the CD was introduced audiophiles have longing for high resolution digital files. We got a good taste of how nice high resolution can sound with DVD-Audio and SACD but those two formats remain fairly marginal, with very little support on the software side. The ability to obtain and enjoy high resolution digital music (I always add the word "digital" because with analog one can easily obtain "high resolution" sound) exists via one's computer. The high end audio magazines should be covering this subject in greater depth. By greater depth I mean things like a review of the various music library management and playback software, information on some of the basics of how to organize and work with a digital music library and reviews of high resolution music available only as downloads. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81346 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
