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Totally agree with Spongebob and Buzzlightyear regarding recording/mastering quality. I rip all my cd's at 320kb, which, while not up to lossless, takes up less space but is clearly better quality than lower bitrates. I use Ultimate Ears canalphones, and variations in mastering are [i]very[/i] clear to my ears, and I hope that the music business doesn't 'dumb-down' recording quality. Somehow, despite the 'yoof' wandering around playing tinny music on their mobiles, I think that there's enough desire in the music buying public to have their records play in the highest quality available. I've recently replaced my dying Yamaha SACD/DVD-A player with a Cambridge Audio equivalent. I've got over 8000 tracks in iTunes and on my iPod, but I'm still buying cd's on a regular basis because I still prefer to sit down and listen to an album as an album. I love the random nature of a big iPod stuffed with music and left in shuffle mode; mine's in the car and it's like having my own 6Music station, but I love my cd's, a significant number are signed by the artist, and I would never get rid of them; they're a reliable backup, and I don't trust HDD longevity enough to entrust 1000-odd cd's collected since 1982 to that sort of storage and get rid of them. Some are irreplacable, or at significant cost, so I'm keeping them all.
Bravo CountZero! Bravo!
So... assuming I've ripped all my CDs as WAV files and they're all on either my laptop or an external HD, how do I get them through my amp and out of my speakers?
I assume there's a box with a bloody great HD in that can sit in the space currently taken by my CD player?
I don't suppose Marantz do one in silver to match the amp?
Higgo - use flac - not wav
+1 for lofting them - came across my Dad's old records (those black flat round things) - some valuable classics and a window into another world - your children's children's children will be fascinated.
It's much less apparent if you just listen to mp3s IMO.
Bet you couldn't tell the difference between a 320kbps MP3 and a CD in a blind test.
So... assuming I've ripped all my CDs as WAV files and they're all on either my laptop or an external HD, how do I get them through my amp and out of my speakers?I assume there's a box with a bloody great HD in that can sit in the space currently taken by my CD player?
I don't suppose Marantz do one in silver to match the amp?
you could just invest in a decent audio card and play straight from your laptop into the amp!
and i agree with stuartm555 to use flac instead of wav.
Higgo - use flac - not wav
I think my phone (Nokia 5800) supports WAV but not FLAC. I could be wrong.
And I use it quite a bit when travelling with work as a music player.
you could just invest in a decent audio card and play straight from your laptop into the amp!
Laptop and amp aren't always in the same room.