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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?
Post Subject: Acute file playing syndrome?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/2/2011
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 item wrote:
Let's just be grateful things have moved on from those nasty plastic discs . . . in an ideal world I like to call the future, we would download our files from the mixing desk direct to our highly optimised audio computers/streamers/digital transports and music would never get tangled up in optical media, with all its resource-hungry correction and crude mechanical apparatus. In the meantime, MD5 checksums (for instance) give us complete confidence that a copied file is 100% accurately transferred from disc. Playing that file as well as the disc-spinner is the benchmark computers have aspired to, but in many cases have now surpassed.

Item, I am sorry but what you recite is nothing more then marketing BS that has absolutely nothing to do with reality. Where do you get your downloaded files? The file providers make the files for you from CDs. In fact to have them on CD is good as it gets rid of the chance that some kind of idiot in the middle would love to manipulate with the files. When you download then how do you know what is on another side? It very much might be some kind of stupid Moron that pumps into feed 96K MP3 files and upside them to 192kHz. It happens all over the net and your journalist-editor shall address that instead of writing unnecessary BS about a new toy that juts pretrial for ads for the next 6 month. Your willingness to celebrate “benchmark computers” is fine but this is only very shallow side of problem. I appreciate your enthusiasm if you only just discovered the PC-based playback but I am assure you that you will go over it in future.
 item wrote:
In similar vein to our machines, Romy (which you're not likely to hear over there), have you tried the Auraliti players? They're capable of pretty nifty performance.

Nope, I do not know them and I am not looking to any file playing machines. I have my DAW and it is enough for me. I would be much interested for option to my DAW to play CD in real time from some kind CD-Rom, or what I call “transport” mode. Unfortutly as I said not of the CD-roms (real-time, buffered or memory) read disks with demanded level of quality.

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