A high-end cdp can easily beat out any music server.That is a bold statement. What do you classify as a "high-end cdp"?
why still buy a cd player?
I'm relatively new to the audiophile world, and I'm trying to understand why anone who has a sonos system (or alike) and has stored his files on a server in a lossless format would still want to buy a CD player for best audiophile music quality.
here's my thinking:
if a lossless rip format is used, the data stored after ripping on a digital hard-disk is as good as cd quality - by definition-,...
with sonos i can get that data anywhere in the house without errors
so the only thing that matters is the conversion from digital to analog and the follow-up amplification.
Now,
i can go from sonos to a pre-amp using a digital port, then the pre-amp determines the DAC quality.
or I go from sonos to an amp after using the DAC in the sonos (and use the analog connection to the amp)
If I were to have a CDP connected digitally to a pre-amp, the pre-amp DAC would determine the quality of the sound. In that case I might as well skip the CDP and fall back on my sonos and connect it digitally to my pre-amp.
So the only benefit from a CDP player would come from using the DAC and thus the analog out of the CDP. Is my logic correct?
If this is correct, than I would only have better sound quality with a CDP if the DAC of the CD player exceeds the quality of the DAC of my sonos and of my pre-amp. Is my logic correct?
If it is, and since I can imagine that most $500k CD would have better DAC than a sonos, the real comparison is to figure out of the DAC of my pre-amp is better than the DAC of my CDP. If it does, than no need for a cdp, just use sonos. If it doesn't then a cdp would still provide better quality. Is that correct?
So, the decision to by a
I can imagine that a good cdp would exceed the
here's my thinking:
if a lossless rip format is used, the data stored after ripping on a digital hard-disk is as good as cd quality - by definition-,...
with sonos i can get that data anywhere in the house without errors
so the only thing that matters is the conversion from digital to analog and the follow-up amplification.
Now,
i can go from sonos to a pre-amp using a digital port, then the pre-amp determines the DAC quality.
or I go from sonos to an amp after using the DAC in the sonos (and use the analog connection to the amp)
If I were to have a CDP connected digitally to a pre-amp, the pre-amp DAC would determine the quality of the sound. In that case I might as well skip the CDP and fall back on my sonos and connect it digitally to my pre-amp.
So the only benefit from a CDP player would come from using the DAC and thus the analog out of the CDP. Is my logic correct?
If this is correct, than I would only have better sound quality with a CDP if the DAC of the CD player exceeds the quality of the DAC of my sonos and of my pre-amp. Is my logic correct?
If it is, and since I can imagine that most $500k CD would have better DAC than a sonos, the real comparison is to figure out of the DAC of my pre-amp is better than the DAC of my CDP. If it does, than no need for a cdp, just use sonos. If it doesn't then a cdp would still provide better quality. Is that correct?
So, the decision to by a
I can imagine that a good cdp would exceed the
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