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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?
Post Subject: Little coherence and even less relevance to your arguments. In this thread.Posted by oxric on: 11/2/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote:

 oxric wrote:
By analogy, an Item Audio equipped with an optional blu-ray drive would serve precisely this function. It would spin a disc, extract the data and code it so that it is available for the next stage in the chain.

Yes it might but it needs to do it in real time. I do not think at this point Item Audio “transport” performs this rudimental transport duty.

 oxric wrote:
Reviewer bashing Romy? Without knowing who it is and what was said?

Why do I need to know who and under which circumstance said anything? Any persons who practice audio not for own benefits but for interests of “others” as far as I’m concern might go fuck himself. I understand that you do not “get” it yet but you do see me insisting that you obliged to get anything, do you. Please do not response to it.

The Cat


There is little need to respond to any of it Romy. Whilst the points you make about the evolutionary flaws embedded in redbook show the shortsightedness of the designers or technological limitations in the days leading to the launch of the Compact Disc, this thread was not about redbook playback but about a Transport which does what it says on the tin and extracts data, codes it and sends it to your favourite DAC with little ado and irrespective of the format you started with, be it a high resolution download or music on some physical media.

How this thread however turned out to be one about semantics and then about cd playback and redbook is indeed baffling. Personally, I cannot imagine many companies investing in improving cd playback. It is a dead end, not least because the problems enumerated were caused by shortsightedness on the part of those behind redbook and things will ultimately move on, to high res media and downloads once the music industry get its act together. If one wants to achieve ultimate quality from cd, they should just hold on to their favourite cd player/transport combination and use that as a source. That's what I do. It's not as convenient maybe but so is playing LPS or 78s, or that FM broadcast you recorded to tape. Ours is unfortunately a painful pursuit and there is little chance of anyone coming along who will resolve all your digital transport woes in one fell swoop. It's somewhat like that long list of criteria you wanted some off-the-shelf unit for your Opera Room receiver to satisfy, that would have universal transport, onboard DAC and amplification, for the paltry sum of $1000. Reality is different.

Of course, being a programmer of some description and versed in the dark arts of redbook data extraction, error correction and transfer, I imagine you might well consider spending a week-end producing this ideal digital transport you have been waiting for instead of whinging that commercial units brought to market do not satisfy your own very personal criteria or non-universal definitions.

Best regards
Rakesh

  

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