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External hard drives and sound quality

I've just about filled up the internal hard drive on my Macbook with music files and am now looking at external hard drive options. Was wondering whether folks report any difference in sound quality when playing files from an external drive versus the internal?

I'm especially interested in hearing people's experiences using wireless hard drives. An Apple rep told me it would be no problem, as the hard drive wouldn't directly interface with the USB output, but I of course always like to be skeptical of anything an Apple rep says.
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Lots of long posts here on this thread...

I'm in the middle of testing an external drive again (as I had over a year ago with a Dell laptop). This time, with a macbook.

Both times (with the Dell and now the Macbook), the external drive made a difference for the better. And others on other forums say the same thing. I can a/b pretty easily by loading up the external drive's library in Itunes and then loading up the internal drive again for comparison of the same music.

I wouldn't take my word (or Blindjim's or Mapman's for that matter), you will have to try it for yourself. Drives are fairly cheap.
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