30 Years of Perfect Sound?

To stop this thread being nonsense we must give more facts.

Tmsorosk, Which CD player was preferred in the shoot out with which HD server and DAC?

I keep seeing these daft comments. I have yet to hear a CD player sound better than a well set up, modern and carefully chosen computer and DAC system.

Just playing from memory alone will change your mind, let alone using the correct software like Amarra etc.

You seem to forget the recording you are probably listening to was recorded and mastered on a computer. So how can a 44.1 16 bit CD sound better unless you have a terrible DAC and computer set up?

Hi Stickman451,

I'm sure your vinyl sounds nice, you cannot compare your old Sony SACD which was ok in it's day. Modern computers and the development of digital equipment have come along way.

I suggest you go and try some rather than forming an opinion from 5 to 10 years ago. Get some HD recordings. Nothing is lacking unless you are addicted to noise and pleasant distortion?

Stickman451,

the Da Vinci DAC is a very good sounding DAC, but its only claim to fame is the lack of the filter and an algorithm with a few nice parts, and its own internal separate power supplies for the board. Don't think for a second that that performance cannot be had at half the price.

That momentum with the advancement in chips for 4k video processing and HD audio and so on will only bring those costs closer for mere mortals. Look at Oppo with their latest players.

Up sample in your host computers software and fluid, rich, dynamic digital audio is here right now.

I totally get the vinyl addiction. If you still hanker for that vinyl sound just record and catalogue it digitally, and play it back from your computer with all the advantages of that system.

I know quite a few vinyl heads who have already done it. You could even correct all the noise with software.