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In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player
Post Subject: Get ripped & clockedPosted by jessie.dazzle on: 9/18/2008
Yes, sure we can do the experiment, and in fact I too am curious (stayed up until way too late looking for an appropriate recording...) ; it will however only be a test of the "file ripping performance" of iTunes via my Mac and it's associated external drives... And, as already mentioned, I don't believe these are the major factors responsible for the good results I'm getting.
You have a really really good CD transport, one that is, no doubt, very difficult to match; it is nevertheless possible that you have not been able to match this quality with your humble PC hard drive for the following reasons : When playing files directly from your hard drive (unless you use an external clock) you are asking the frequency synthesizer in the DAC to constantly track a word clock signal that was generated within a very hostile environment, your PC; that signal, along with the rest of the data that ends up as music, is carried back to the DAC via a cable. There may be anomalies in this signal... (paraphrasing some stuff I read here) If for example the audio sample word data have somehow been messed up, and arrive in a state that is "incorrect" and not suitable for D/A conversion, the DAC is instructed to mute its output (for like a nanosecond; throughout the duration of the defective sample/s). The DAC I'm using gets the timing part done in a different way (the newer version employs what is theoretically an even better solution, but I don't know how it sounds), I believe this to be the reason for the results I'm getting.
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