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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player

Post Subject: HDD sound vs CDP sound & NOS DACsPosted by jessie.dazzle on: 6/19/2009

Manisandher wrote :
"...I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD..."

Telstar wrote :
"... It is..."

Romy wrote :
"...I disagree. The main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD is not the soundcard/interface but the CD format itself and the fact that the CD are over-edited by deaf and semi-moronic people. If the CD be data CD and contain the raw 16/44 files than the qulety would be orders of magnetite more superior..."

Yes, but it seems that's not what Manisandher is saying in the above quote.

Where Romy is comparing files from commercially marketed music CDs to raw 16/44 files, I believe Manisandher is implying the comparison between any file played back from a CD player, to that same file, once ripped and played back from a hard drive.

Raw 16/44 files would sound orders of magnitude better than a commercially marketed music CD edited by deaf morons whether played back via a CD player or via a hard drive.

Telstar wrote :
"...it's always the DAC which accounts for the vast majority of the sound quality. This is why the guy above feels that his music server with Wavelength dac sounds better. There is also the unknown rule that NOS sounds better with a computer (and nobody can explain why)..."

Telstar, when you say NOS, I assume you are referring to what have apparently come to be known as NOS DAC modules, correct? The first time I heard about them was from the Wavelength web page, quoted below :

"...Some people call these NOS DACs or what I call zero DACs. The data input is the data output without any up/oversampling or other manipulation, which seems to make for a very analog presentation. [Wevelength markets them as their Transcendental DAC modules]. The reason I used this name [Transcendental] was because this technology is really an irrational approach that yields really good results. Basically Transcendental in math terms means irrational numbers..."

Why they are called NOS, I have no idea.

jd*

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