zantetsuken
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Yeah, isnt a source component where your music comes from? so like a computer or a cd player etc?.
just curious.
just curious.
Originally Posted by gregorio /img/forum/go_quote.gif This is quite strange to me. Professionally, the term "source" means the originally recorded tracks. Even a CD itself is not the source of the digital data, it is mearly the distribution media, someone had to record the digital data in the first place, mix it and put it on to the CD. |
Originally Posted by lamikeith /img/forum/go_quote.gif Perspective is important, so please allow me to clarify. The "source" can be which ever part of the recording/playback chain we wish to call the source: musicians, microphones, mixing board, master tape, digital distribution media (CD, SACD, streaming digital audio, etc.), DAC, amplifier, or speakers/headphones. We end listeners likely have no control over the recording side of the chain, therefore, we can only control from the point after the "digital distribution media", which is the DAC. |
Originally Posted by lamikeith /img/forum/go_quote.gif Perspective is important, so please allow me to clarify. The "source" can be which ever part of the recording/playback chain we wish to call the source: musicians, microphones, mixing board, master tape, digital distribution media (CD, SACD, streaming digital audio, etc.), DAC, amplifier, or speakers/headphones. We end listeners likely have no control over the recording side of the chain, therefore, we can only control from the point after the "digital distribution media", which is the DAC. |
Originally Posted by zantetsuken /img/forum/go_quote.gif yeah exactly. ive made another thread about this but got no reply, but what are the differences in the electronics between cheaper and expensive dacs?. i.e a $100, $1000 and $2000+. if i were to open it up what would i find that would be different? im talking about typical dacs. im no electronics wizz so keep it as layman as possible. |
Originally Posted by gregorio /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why choose to use a term which is already used in the audio world (with a different meaning) which is likely, at some point, to cause confusion? |
Originally Posted by PhilS /img/forum/go_quote.gif It seem that certain terms come to have a different meaning, or a broader meaning, in day-to-day usage, even though they may not be completely accurate or technically precise. People commonly use the term "source" on Head-Fi to refer to DAC's without much confusion, I think. I'm sure there are many other examples one could think of in this field and others if we gave it enough thought. P.S. I'm flying to Pittsburgh next week. Although, actually, it's not me that will be "flying";but the plane, and I'll just be riding in it. |