stop-spinning wrote: > I have a friend I am trying to convince that his hi-end CD player should > not be better than a good computer based music source - and so far - the > CD player wins bringing more dimensionality to the sound, whereas so > far, the ripped equivalent sound flat in comparison. > > Perhaps I am ripping them wrong, or using the wrong computer based > source (we've even tried a SBT), however to this date - the CD player > stomps all over my attempts (granted it is an expensive CD player - but > nevertheless). > > I too have sat in and listened to his system - and have resigned to the > fact that his CD player sounds better both as a player and a transport > to an external DAC. > > This is why I suspected that there might be some truth in the article - > and whereas a CD player is far less convenient than a ripped library of > music - it's still the better sounding alternative by quite a margin.
My understanding is that if you are using the digital output from Windows PC with the default soundcard then the sound is probably compromised by the messing about that Windows kernel does. This is certainly the case with Windows XP, though with Windows 7 you can set the default format for a particular output device to 44.1 kHz, otherwise I understand everything is resampled by default! Using LMS and Touch is a totally different kettle of fish, but as has been stated you need to set it as like for like in comparison to the CD player: Fixed at 100% volume, no replay gain, etc, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97019 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
