stop-spinning wrote: > ...and getting good if not better results? > > I personally always wondered why a CD player should sound better than an > SBT, because an SBT does not have any moving parts or spinning disks to > worry about. But if you don't take the greatest of care when it comes to > ripping your music then your hi-end CD player or Transport will always > be the SQ king (even though not quite so convenient) it would appear.
I use my Touch with USB drive attached to it regularly instead of the traditional transport. My collection is in FLACs, converted using EAC. Even thought the rips are "Accurate" ones, I compared a pair of CDs I ripped using my DENON DVD as transport and then the same content from the HDD/Touch combination; result: the CD sounded somewhat better (same amp & speakers, same cables, even same input on my amp)... One could argue that the copies cannot be guranteed to be bit-perfect accurate (after all, EAC does state some level of 'confidence'), others might say that you might lose something (e.g. timing) due to FLACs being decompressed before playing, or maybe there is a need for a better power supply for the HDD/Touch combination ... Whatever the reason may be, the result was such. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ congole's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97019 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
