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jessie.dazzle wrote:

In my case, it has nothing to do with convenience, and believe it or not, everything to do with quality.

Hm, I would question it. Are you saying that you are able to play from your PC music that you got by ripping CD and you have better sound from PC? It was NEVER my experience at least. I have on PC (besides the FM WAV files, that are 99% of my PC audio) only the music that “inconvenient” to play normally: tapes, “special need” LPs required wet playing and so on… I have no single file on my PS that came from CD.

jessie.dazzle wrote:

What's more, the "convenience" of it all (and I used to see it that way) is resulting in horrible listening habits and ignorance. Having everything on a server for years now, I don't bother listening to newly acquired CDs via the CD transport... I'll just rip them straight away, placing the physical copies on the shelf, never again to be touched. This has resulted in an ability to recognize within seconds, many many pieces of music, without being able to identify the artist or composer, or even recall the image of the associated cover art; I simply "know the tune".

Actually it a very interesting point, I never thought about it. The linear notes are very important for me, I have in many cases my own notes on CD and LP cases…

jessie.dazzle wrote:

It gets worse ; along with all this comes the tendency to let the computer select files at random; if not in the mood for a given selection, simply zap on through to the next random selection without ever getting up to see who the artist might be.

THAT, is something that I never ever tried. If I would like to permit to do it I usually tune to WCRB-FM that allows themselves to play randomly separate movements from different compositions….

jessie.dazzle wrote:

I need to get control of these bad habits, but I have no plan to stop using the music server, and this is due only to the associated quality of sound.

Are you re-clocking and upsampling the 16bit CDs when you load the files to your PC and then feel that it give a better quality? What do you use as the wiping software and what wiping transport you use for the initial read of the CDs? Am I missing coming?

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