Preference for listening to music?

maidenrulez wrote: Heh lets not forget SACD or DVD audio wich delivers excellent sound quailty at 192khz 24 bits but i use a portable cd player instead of a mp3 player because the mp3 quailty even at 192kbps is dreadfull. I also uses the great B&W nautilus 805 at home matched with som excellent thule amp's dvd player. Great stuff!

You need to encode your files using a better encoder-the difference is not that great-just equivalent to the difference between listening to a cd on a mini hifi compared to listening on a decent seperates system.

There is too much snobbery when it comes to HIFI.
If the original recording is rubbish then a top of the range hifi seperates system will make it sound worse -not better, vinyl,cd or whatever!

This only to drive my turntable MC head

 

ita_prog_fan wrote: This only to drive my turntable MC head

Nieghbourhood while i'm listening to music on my hi-fi equipment at 5,5% volume

Edited by ita_prog_fan

FLAC + rio karma = god.

but in reality, i hardly ever listen to cds anymore.  I've converted all my cds to either ogg or flac, and the convenience far outweighs the sound quality in the former, and well, cds don't have anything at all over flac.  the only reason all my music isn't flac is because i don't have that kind of hard drive space on my laptop... yet. 

oliverstoned wrote: FishyMonkey wrote: MP3 player or CD player? Yes, this relates to prog songs because I find some quality is lost in an MP3 player. Plus that, there's nothing like lying down, popping in a new CD, and listening to it straight through. CDs seem more special than just a bunch of osngs on your MP3 player. Lastly, you get the best listening experience with a CD player for the reasons above, and that's what I find as important with prog. So what do you prefer, CD player or MP3 player? Or no real preference? Numeric is crap. But among numeric, MP3 (and others compressed formats) is the worst thing ever invented. So CD!

if you use decent encoding methods you can make some very good sounding mp3s.  also, lossless compression codecs like flac are indistinguishable from cd. 

Hmmm...
everything is relative!







This one is for you , ke9

There are much reasons which explain why a computer can't produce good sound:
-First, it's a power great polluter.
When i light off the pc in my house while my system is on, i can clearly hear the difference, cause the PC is a great source of power pollution.(like a cd is a great source of power pollution/compare to analog source inside a system).
-Second, when you burn a CD on a computer burner, it ruins the sound, whereas if you burn it on a good audiophile burner, the cd can be absolutely the same than the original, which is not the case, i insist when you burn it on a computer.On a minimum transparent system, you clearly hear that the computer-burned Cd is harsher, agressive in the high, loose dynamic and soundstage, etc...etc..of course, on an ordinary standard bad system/or computer, you can't hear the difference.
Cause on a PC the circuits are not designed for sound and don't use audiophile components, and these are those audiophile components that make the difference between a little Cd player and a big one (along of course with the drive, power alimentation, etc...).

Good affordable audiophile burner:

I know it's been covered before here, and I am not disagreeing with you Olly, but a "1 or a zero" is a "1 or zero", how can an "audiophile" cd burner burn better quality 1's and 0's than a computer cd-rw ?, except than maybe by requiring more expensive cdr's.