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RE: CD/DVD Jukeboxes


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  • Subject: RE: CD/DVD Jukeboxes
  • From: "James, Daniel" <daniel.james@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:43:45 +0100
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What sort of investment in sound card do I need to consider?
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 July 2001 16:42
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CD/DVD Jukeboxes

Depends what you mean by "quality". Obviously one could design an MP3 implementation in accordance with ISO9002. Ask your father....

Sorry about that...
 
OK, I listen t MP3 mostly in my study, which has
 
 
    Quad 306 pre-amp
    Quad 36 power amp
    Rogers LS4a speakers
 
The comparative between the CD player built into the PC, and the MP3 replay through the PC is "can't tell the difference" when ripped at 256k/sec.
 
Equally, going from that system straight to the main system
 
    Pioneer DVD-727 DVD player
    John Shearne Phase 2 integrated amp bi-amped with
    John Shearne Phase 3 power amp
    Linn Keildh speakers
 
... shows _some_ difference, but I'm putting that mainly down to the speakers (much more weighty than the Rogers, but less good stereo imaging) rather than the source.
 
My guess would be that against a £250 CD player, in a separates system designed to match, then MP3 would be acceptable, but in anything higher, you'd begin to see the problems. Certainly, my "best ever experience" listening t hi-fi was listening t my amps/speakers with a Linn Sondek CD12 - a cool £12k's worth of CD player - that was outrageously good. (OK not as good as listening t it with a Chord 1200C and a pair of Nautilus 801s, but it was the Linn's ability to sing with mid-range components that really impressed me.)
 
Regards,

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

-----Original Message-----
From: James, Daniel [mailto:daniel.james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 July 2001 16:20
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CD/DVD Jukeboxes

Quality is the one thing that puts me off this completely... I have no experience of MP3 but believe that it is not
as good quality wise?

 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 July 2001 16:20
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CD/DVD Jukeboxes

I second Graham - although in my case, I'm putting the DVDs onto the server
as well!

One key advantage of replay from hard-disk is that menu access is _much_
faster!

I'm ripping MP3s at 256kb/sec, on the basis that disk space is, in round
terms, free ;-)

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 9 July 2001 09:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] CD/DVD Jukeboxes


For CD's why not just burn them all to hard disk as MP3 and play from there.
That is what I have done and can now browse and control the 'jukebox' from
any web enabled device in the house. Current favourite is a wireless ePOD.
The added advantage is that devices such as the DDAR (or PCs, iPAQs etc) can
be used to play music 'locally' in any room via the LAN. My physical CDs are
now just a backup and will soon be consigned to the loft. DVDs are a
different proposition at present, though with hard disks getting affordable
at 100Gb+ and the divx technology, it won't be long before I think about
putting those on the server too.

Regards

Graham




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