Or… if the OP is knowledgable they could add that to their query… that they are aware of newer methods. Or that is not necessary, they can ignore helpful alternative posts.
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@mahler123 …”I continue to be amazed when posters ask about a transport or a CDP and then gets told by the usual half dozen suspects that they should be playing ripped CDs.”.
Or… when an OP asks a question about older technology some folks try to be helpful and point out options they may not be aware of. As someone that has introduced new technology to users who seldom have a broad understanding of the state of technology for decades. I always try to make sure to look at the broader picture. Typically it can be really helpful to point it out contemporary alternatives. They can easily ignore the advice, after all it is free. A recent example was a user was printing out hundreds of invoices each day. They then would take this huge pile to a scanner and scan them one by one into files, which would be emailed to her workstation, where she would retrieve them one by one, find the customers email and forward the scanned document to the customer. She wanted to know if I could batch the printing… so she did not have to print them one by one.
I could have answered the question. Instead I pointed to the menu item below print document that said email to customer. Suddenly, no printing, no scanning, no matching emails to the customers address. One very happy user.
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Hi Greg (?), I’d really like to help, but just don’t feel I have quite enough info. So let me try and lay the basics out. See if we can disassemble the question.
A CD transport spins disks with computer files on them. So, it is a reader and a streamer. There is no cashing involved as far as I know. This data goes to a DAC, where it is converted to an analog signal. Streaming from files located on a hard drive, or network drive, or in a streamers internal drive can be exactly the same files (let’s assume for simplicity). If you use a high quality streamer, it may cashe your files to make sure there are no gapes. The resulting sound quality is roughly equally dependent on the streamer and the DAC (there are some folks that may disagree… but I have a lot of experience on my side that says both). So, having said this. If I was setting up the best sounding system I could, that was forward looking, I would be getting the best possible streamer and DAC. Your ripped files and CDs are probably all available on Qobuz… so, are of little value. The Yggdrasil is a good budget DAC… if you matched it with a used Aurrender N100… or better yet N200…. You would have a better source than a transport and access to millions of albums. Then when you upgraded your DAC the sound quality would make a huge jump. I hope this made sense.
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