Overheat
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Okay, okay, I've been hoping to acheive something similar to this for quite some time now and I've been doing a lot of research on the subject. But now I need to ask some questions to this almighty forum and pick your audiophilic brains.
My ideas are as such:
An ultra-portable laptop -> Firewire sound card (24bit/192KHz) -> Sexy cans
OR
A PDVDP -> Portable Micro Amp w/ DAC via optical -> Sexy cans
Those seem to be the best options I can think of, and I intend to use vinyl-rip FLAC files either from HDD on option 1 or on DVD-A via option 2. Pros and cons of the options that I can think of are as follows:
Pro: playback of 24bit/192KHz audio (near vinyl-perfect)
Pro: firewire sound card can be used for recording as well as playback.
Con: Will the PDVDP be a good enough source to justify the 24bit/192KHz?
Con: 24bit/192KHz from HDD will be approx 4.5GB per album, so would either require many external HDDs or drop quality to 24bit/96KHz.
Anyway, I want to know your opinions - are either of these options feasible and are they capable of producing a vinyl-quality sound on the go? Are there any other options? Would this be a signficant upgrade from my 90s CD-Player setup (sig)?
Please let me know so I can put my number crunching to rest. Thank you.
btw if you want examples of setups:
Dell Latitude D400 -> TerraTec Producer Phase 24 -> Sennheiser HD650
Toshiba SDP1707 -> Headroom Micro Amp w/ DAC via optical -> Grado RS-1
Not necessarily what I'm going to get, but just to give an illustration, perhaps.
Any comments are very welcome!!!
My ideas are as such:
An ultra-portable laptop -> Firewire sound card (24bit/192KHz) -> Sexy cans
OR
A PDVDP -> Portable Micro Amp w/ DAC via optical -> Sexy cans
Those seem to be the best options I can think of, and I intend to use vinyl-rip FLAC files either from HDD on option 1 or on DVD-A via option 2. Pros and cons of the options that I can think of are as follows:
Pro: playback of 24bit/192KHz audio (near vinyl-perfect)
Pro: firewire sound card can be used for recording as well as playback.
Con: Will the PDVDP be a good enough source to justify the 24bit/192KHz?
Con: 24bit/192KHz from HDD will be approx 4.5GB per album, so would either require many external HDDs or drop quality to 24bit/96KHz.
Anyway, I want to know your opinions - are either of these options feasible and are they capable of producing a vinyl-quality sound on the go? Are there any other options? Would this be a signficant upgrade from my 90s CD-Player setup (sig)?
Please let me know so I can put my number crunching to rest. Thank you.
btw if you want examples of setups:
Dell Latitude D400 -> TerraTec Producer Phase 24 -> Sennheiser HD650
Toshiba SDP1707 -> Headroom Micro Amp w/ DAC via optical -> Grado RS-1
Not necessarily what I'm going to get, but just to give an illustration, perhaps.
Any comments are very welcome!!!