Thread: How do you equal a £15000 cd player for sound?

Providing a hard drive, and i'm refering to a high end unit as i'm not familiar with PCs, can transfer information bit for bit with no loss, then theoretically it could be better than a dedicated transport.

Teac were, and still are famous for making the VRDS clamping system, which was designed to reduce vibration through the spinning disc. The hard drive units i heard and sold were as good as my dedicated unit. The plus side with the hard drive was the cataloguing system and instance access. I would never spend what the amount i did on a Audiophile system again.

But likewise you can spent 10k easily on a high end hard drive unit.

Originally Posted by koogook

What is it with engineers who claim that there cant possibly be any sound difference because of the science that they respectfully know to hold to someones individual subjective tastes.

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Originally Posted by baldrick

and should just be buying based on your perception of the end result.

Originally Posted by koogook

jitter

Quick definitions (jitter)
▸ noun: small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources

I fail to see the relevance

the original analog sound is converted to a binary number via the ADC ( resistor voltage divider flipping digital registers to a clock pulse and shuffled to storage ) , so you have a shedload of binary numbers representing the original analog sound.

send that binary by what ever method you wish ( truckload of punch cards ? )

take the binary and use DAC device to convert back to analog signal and drive linear motors via filters to move air around


disclaimer - I have been happy listening to music via a mono transistor radio - it just depends where you are and what resources are on hand.