beeman458
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beeman: What do you mean by "air?"
You have a better sense of spacial quality.
then it is not really a fair comparison, since you can't say the difference is due to CD vs. WAV rather than signal chain #1 vs. signal chain #2.
Good point but the Blu-ray player used to play the CD with is the same player used to rip the file with.
These digital technologies are engineered to be copied with high fidelity....just as every modern computer user knows it is possible to copy a large file from one hard drive to another hard drive in a "bit-perfect" transaction, it is also possible to copy bits from a CD to a hard drive in a "bit-perfect" way.
I'm in complete agreement and understanding of your above as I've been playing with this stuff since 1980 going back to the TRS-80 days. Digits is digits. Hence both my surprise and follow on question.
Could the flaw be in the D/A converter somewhere between the Blu-ray player (a Pioneer unit), the sound card and the MoBo which stands between the two?
(also, this thread might be more appropriate in the Computer-as-source category, where the OP might get more detailed answers)
I figured that I'd start this sojourn with you music ripper types as personally, I didn't expect to hear a difference, I figure you music types would be on top of this sort of thing and the why of the difference besides "placebo." And yes, I can see the signal chain being part of the difference as there's a few D/A chips as well as a few million transistors and gigabytes worth of memory silicon, not to mention the millions of lines of software in the middle between the CD and the headphones.
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You have a better sense of spacial quality.
then it is not really a fair comparison, since you can't say the difference is due to CD vs. WAV rather than signal chain #1 vs. signal chain #2.
Good point but the Blu-ray player used to play the CD with is the same player used to rip the file with.
These digital technologies are engineered to be copied with high fidelity....just as every modern computer user knows it is possible to copy a large file from one hard drive to another hard drive in a "bit-perfect" transaction, it is also possible to copy bits from a CD to a hard drive in a "bit-perfect" way.
I'm in complete agreement and understanding of your above as I've been playing with this stuff since 1980 going back to the TRS-80 days. Digits is digits. Hence both my surprise and follow on question.
Could the flaw be in the D/A converter somewhere between the Blu-ray player (a Pioneer unit), the sound card and the MoBo which stands between the two?
(also, this thread might be more appropriate in the Computer-as-source category, where the OP might get more detailed answers)
I figured that I'd start this sojourn with you music ripper types as personally, I didn't expect to hear a difference, I figure you music types would be on top of this sort of thing and the why of the difference besides "placebo." And yes, I can see the signal chain being part of the difference as there's a few D/A chips as well as a few million transistors and gigabytes worth of memory silicon, not to mention the millions of lines of software in the middle between the CD and the headphones.
???