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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2005 at 07:35
Please, no "I hate metal" diversions here, that's ruining the thread.

Sorry
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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

You just loose 80% of the music...

Please back up such statements with evidence. If such evidence exists, I'm sure the manufacturers of "esoteric" HiFi components present it on their websites ...

Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

but if it's to listen to metal...that's not so important.

Please, no "I hate metal" diversions here, that's ruining the thread.
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You just loose 80% of the music...but if it's to listen to metal...that's not so important.
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pfffff!!!

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I think there are some important factors that influence the listening quality on a PC:

  • The amp and speakers, naturally.
  • Connection between PC and amp: analog/digital
  • The format of the audio files: low bitrate mp3, high bitrate mp3, mp3pro, mpc, lossless formats
  • The ripping method: analog, digital, digital with error correction (I'm not talking about interpolation here)
  • The quality of the sound card: CD quality vs. 24bit/96khz.
  • The routing of the signal: merely passing the CD audio through to the outputs vs. applying effects

What I'm getting at is that crappy sounding audio on some PCs doesn't mean that it's IMPOSSIBLE to listen to audio on the PC in good quality.
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Points: 1149 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2005 at 06:24
Certainly can. You need good audio hardware and decent speakers. My system is set up with a hoontech dsp24 card and I have a set of klipsch 2.1 speakers on it. It sounds better than my hifi.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2005 at 06:20
Good enough for me to listen to while I'm sitting here typing, for sure!
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In another thread the question arose whether it is possible to listen to digital music in good quality on a computer.

What do you think?

Edit: Please let's keep amp & speakers out of this discussion - the topic here is PC vs. top-notch CD player, both digitally connected to an amp.



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