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In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player
Post Subject: CDP vs HDDPosted by jessie.dazzle on: 9/17/2008
Romy wrote :
"... did you use good transport to make this assessment?..."
Electrocompaniet EMC-1 : Certainly not the absolute last word in transports, but still quite good*
"...So, you have 16/44 dost and you can create a file from it, the file the you feel is identical sonically to the sound of this CD played with a good transport into the same DAC..."
I don't know. To find out will require that I get the correct cable; having the USB DAC, means I never went for a "special" or pro-quality sound card... I need to look at the ports on the Mac; I'm sure it has some sort of digital I/O port (Toslink or Toslink mini).
What I can say for sure is that playing a CD via the optical drive in the computer does not sound any different than playing a file ripped from that same CD, when both are played via the USB DAC; when I wrote that the ripped 16/44 file sounds better than my CDP, that is when the ripped file is played from the HDD into the USB DAC.
I may be wrong, but I do not expect iTunes or the fact that I use a Mac have anything to do with the good results.
What would be really interesting would be to compare the hard drive to the CDP, while feeding the signal of both into the USB DAC. Obviously, getting a USB signal out of the CDP would be the challenge.
"...Would it possible for you, juts for sake of my rededication, to upload to http://www.mediafire.com server a 16/44 wave – a copy from a common, know to us both CD? I would like to have a demo that a ripped file might be good..."
Yes, I still have no internet at home but I can work something out (no time for internet with mid-bass horns under construction).
jd*
*The Electrocompaniet EMC-1 is a sort of interesting machine : It uses the Philips CDM-PRO 2 transport, which is mounted on 4 metal plates, isolated by soft rubber, this assembly is then suspended via a series of internal counter weights. Also uses modular circuit design making it easy to update. Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site