Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's?


From my limited reading it seems that a cd burned to a hard drive will be a bit for bit copy because of the software programs used to rip music files. A transport has to get it right the first time and feed the info to a dac. Wavelength audio has some interesting articles about computer based systems and have made a strong statement that a transport will never be able to compete with a hard drive>dac combo.

Anybody care to share their thoughts?
kublakhan

Showing 2 responses by jeremy

This is very subjective.

High tech equipment replacing low tech equipment ?
The question goes back to why some people prefer LP sound than CD sound ?
Why some people prefer analog amp as compared to digtal amp ?

Its all come back to demand & supply.

In any of the music u listened to, the source play a very important part.

My thinking is that if a cd burned to a hard drive will be a bit for bit copy because of the software programs used to rip music files, then the cd will surely offer a better sound than your burned cd.

The purpose of any recording is to make the cd sound as real as the original which cd is still trying very hard to achieve.

By burning a cd might add some colourity to the sound.

Just my thought.
The benefit that this thing offered is that u can burned all your flavourite songs as a form of library in the hard drive.

I think things are getting more high tech just like mp3 players. Its getting more & more convinent.
Who knows this will be the future.

But I still stand at my own word that nothing sound better than the original. Talking about SACD, DVD-A. They are almost dead.

System trying to make the sound better, more musical but its full of colouration.
Is that the sound that u like ?
Yes, maybe to the newer generation of people.