Why CD players will never be dead

Hi Mrtennis,

I totally understand. What I would say is there is a level of digital accomplishment that is far beyond the reference digital of the past & is something that has happened very recently.

I have wrestled with the philosophy of whether a highend system is to be true to the source or not? After all most records have had a fair amount of work & money spent on them to sound the way they do. Then some enthusiast desides he wants it to sound different!

I guess in the end it is down to what you like. But in my experience a bandage over a problem eventually has to be removed. Is the tube output on your player there to bring life into a lifeless player? Maybe a DAC that's totally alive would remove the need for the added tube stage? After all there is a reason for many manufacturers of tube amps etc sounding less tubey.

Having said all that, I am using a power amp whose Genisis in the 1930s! Lol. In my defence I have a very simple signal path, with no extra connections & boxes etc. Just Source-power amp-speakers.

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It reminds me of the final days of my TT when I could listen to the whole album without having to flip over and clean before playing side 2. The ritual in the end was bogus. It was music we all fell in love with, not rubbish technology & its limitations.

Geez Chadeffect, AMEN!

It was always all about the music with me. I've always wanted the best sound I could get in the most convenient way I could get it, that way I get to listen to more music. To heck with bogus rituals....gimme some music...now!
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So if I download Amarra I HAVE to download every disk over again or can Amarra find the files. Currently use itunes.

Thanks.

Bjesien,

You can use amarra via iTunes. Amarra just sits on the output.

You can browse in iTunes then when you play, amarra will cache the file & play from memory.

Amarra sounds slightly better & can play gapless if you use amarra on its own. Depending on which version you have you can highlight tracks in iTunes & import into Amarra too.

Personally I like to use iTunes via remote as my browser. So you get full artwork & metadata on your controller (iPad/iPhone etc)

The discussion on this thread was helpful. I think I'm going to dip my toe in the water of computer audio and sample some stuff from HD Tracks. Looks like I can download FLAC 92/24 music files from them and also get a trial version of JRiver.

Do I have this right? FLAC is a lossless hi res version of the music but I will need JRiver to play the FLAC file from my PC. Output will be USB to V-Link to V-Dac to pre-amp. Major Question for me: How do I disable Windows Media Player so only JRiver is outputting? If I'm making some incorrect assumptions please advise.

Thanks in advance.