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Apple vs PC for Music System

I'm pretty familiar with XP owning both a desktop and laptop. But I want to put together a similar system to the Apple TV Setup featured in the Absolute Sound and PS Audio.

However when looking at PCs at a local store they had a windows media computer that looked really interestesting that I'm considering purchasing for just audio into my Levinson DAC. I was told I could use an iPod Touch to control this system just like I could an Apple TV.
Also this system included a BluRay Disc drive. The setup looked very cool and very hi tech.

So to do this system right, should I stick with Apple only like the Absolute Sound or a combo of Apple w/PC to do the ripping, or all PC with Sata drives like the computer store would customize for me w/I-Tunes/iPod running the show?
sgr

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jpod
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Dnewhous

I'm relatively new to PC audio and HTPC and trying to keep up with you guys.

Are you saying that the Prelude sound card (and its' op amps} is the superior choice for 2 channel PC audio in general (ie better than outboard DACs or reclockers etc.) or that the prelude is the best choice for an HTPC?

JPO
jpod
59 posts
 
Dnewhous,
Thanks.
JPO
jpod
59 posts
 
Cool, a bare knuckles slug fest between two heavy weight A'goners. Maybe it will evolve into an interesting and useful dialogue.

I may be mistaken but over the last year or so of reading, experimenting, listening to other systems (some of them high end) I've concluded that it's the equipment upstream of the computer that is really important.

Also, over the 25 years or so since I've been using desk top computers I've noticed that Microsoft and Apple, while using different operating systems, tend to converge towards one level of performance in a general area of applications (ie. word processing, spread sheets, internet support) I suspect that MS and Apple have reached a point of convergence in consumer level audio and I suspect they will soon meet a point of convergence in consumer level Home Theater computing.

In the near future discussions about differences between MS and Apple audio and video applications might be as interesting as discussions about competing word processing applications.

In the mean time, let the games begin.

JPO
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