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| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER I park mine in the next room (quieter) and use a tablet PC as a wireless remote. Never have to leave the couch again to change CDs. | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER Congrats on your new purchase. I've been following your posts on getting into PC-based audio. Sounds like you found a winner. If more people experienced hard drive based audio done right, there would be a lot more converts. | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC There are processes going on in the player after RUR which processes the data and helps create the Memory Player's sound.What does this mean? Is the bit stream modified? If modifying the data makes the MP sound better than other devices, that's OK... | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC You hit the nail on the head. You'll find answers to your question in the "other" MP thread. I've never heard the MP so I can't comment, but I have an observation:You obviously appreciate that simply connecting a PC to a DAC via AES/coax/toslink d... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? The head-to-head at RMAF would be great for customers. It would be nice if Empirical Audio and others would participate. Steve?... | |
| We often underate the importance of the DAC Timrhu-As long as you use ripping software that does bit-perfect ripping to uncompressed WAV files, the hard drive copy will be exactly the same as the CD original. EAC and JRiver do bit-perfect ripping. Basically, IMHO, it doesn't matter which CD... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? "Also Mr. Perry and his staff have tested EAC copies vs the Memory Player and again there is no contest."Audiooracle-What PC playback set-up(s) did they use?Kana813 - Good point. If the Kmixer isn't bypassed or there's a lousy driver, the sound wo... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? The Memory Player has great potential if given the right direction, although the trickle-down theory will begin to take effect for lesser cost.Agreed. As I mentioned, if you already have a PC, you can add bit-perfect ripping and a ramdisk for ~$40... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? I'm not trying to kick up dirt and have no agenda. Just trying to get some information, because I think the MP concept is the way to go.I think this answers other questions that have been asked in the past on the theory the MP isn't anything more ... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Audiooracle: Anyway there is more to the Memory Player than what you surmise: for one: the software is quite different than EAC and a ram disc is still ram setup as a virtual space on the hard drive, which means you will still have timing errors.A... | |
| what makes a tube sound the way it does? Tube amps are voltage driven which produce even harmonics,solid state is current driven which produces uneven harmonics.That pretty much sums it up,right.Is this true? I'm no expert. Just been reading up on tubes lately, because I'm considering mo... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? The Memory Player uses proprietary software and processing which extracts a pure bit perfect copy of the disc on to a hard drive, then the data is processed, then played back from solid state ram.The only other player that does this is a $100k Son... | |
| Any experience with the new EMM CDSA SE ? Deshapiro: I agree. That would be an elegant solution for people who like the Meitner sound and want to add a PC front end. If they somehow allowed a digital stream through the player's USB port, even better (wishful thinking...) | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Islandear, I think Diamond would want us to limit the number of tubeheads or transistorheads, instead of offering increasing numbers of models in each category, to ensure a longer, safer, happier future for audiophiles. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Islandear-As I drove my gas-guzzling cargo today, it struck me what you were getting at. Guns, Germs, and Steel. Great book. |