I once heard a demo in a friend's home of HDD vs. SSD, same music file. The differences were not subtle, with the SSD offering much better everything. This was a good, but modest system with bookshelf speakers, and plenty of tweaks. I made up my mind that if SSDs get a bit cheaper, I will try to replace the HDD in my Vortexbox appliance with a SSD.
Computer, CD transport or Network Player?
I currently have most of my music downloaded on my computer as FLAC files and listen to it through JRiver or Signalyst HQ (audio players for Windows) on my Dell desktop. The sound is amazing but I have a question and it is this:
Which do you find to have the highest sound quality;
1. Redbook CD's directly played in a high quality CD transport?
2. Ripped FLAC or Apple lossless files played through a high quality PC or MAC computer based audio player (such as JRiver or Signalyst for Windows or Vox or Clementine for MAC)?
3. or music (from one's own private CD collection) loaded on a network player?
Using a DAC of course.
Which do you find to have the highest sound quality;
1. Redbook CD's directly played in a high quality CD transport?
2. Ripped FLAC or Apple lossless files played through a high quality PC or MAC computer based audio player (such as JRiver or Signalyst for Windows or Vox or Clementine for MAC)?
3. or music (from one's own private CD collection) loaded on a network player?
Using a DAC of course.