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
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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