On Sep 5, 11:12 am, Brian Treml <britre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Call me old school, but what I disagree with is the practicality of
> having a for lack of a better term "expensive Audiophile setup" and
> trying to attach lower quality MP3 players or I-Pods with 128K files
> and calling it superior.
Why do you assume people are attaching low quality MP3 players with
128kbps files and not, say, high quality players with lossless 96/24
files? (The DACs on the 5th generation iPods were actually quite
good, by the way).
> While music directly out of a PC or Mac can definitely be equal if not
> better to any gear out there, I find it an impractical way to enjoy
> audio only as the whole process is distracting and is always there
> reminding you you are not in the zone and the slave of the PC's needs
> and wants, It is like having a bad girlfriend or wife in the listening
> room b##G in the middle of everything you try to critically listen
> too. My opinion.
I find it the MOST practical way of listening, as I can free myself
from the shackles of disc and player shuffling. Everything is right
there at your fingertips.
Granted, the PC part can be obtrusive at times -- however, the
benefits of having all my music, from all my sources (DVD-A, SACD, Blu-
Ray, vinyl rips), at my fingertips and neatly tagged and cataloged
with album art scans, and available to me anywhere in my house via LAN
are too good to pass up. I can't imagine going back. I have three
PCs at locations in my house each attached to a receiver via HDMI, and
I also have three other points in my house that have streaming clients
to which I can also send music.
Have you ever wanted to listen to a track from one album on SACD and
the next from an LP and another from a DVD-A? When I want to do such
a thing, I find playing disc jockey far more distracting and
demanding.
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