Lossless Files Vs CD's

Dvavc, Steve and I have both indicated multiple times in our earlier posts that the methodology you have used in your comparisons of CD playback with your computer vs. file playback with your computer, to quote one of my statements:

... cannot distinguish between effects occurring during the ripping process and effects occurring during the playback process. Yet he attributes the differences he perceived to the ripping process, even though (as we've both explained) it is entirely expectable and technically explainable that differences will be introduced during playback, and entirely unexpectable and technically inexplicable that differences will be introduced during a properly implemented rip.

In other words, that comparison is not apples to apples, as you continue to claim. Somehow that point seems to not be getting across.

Regards,
-- Al

Eat, rip and be merry......

Hi all,

FWIW, my personal experience thus far in my home system(I am not a dealer) is that :-

1. A top-notch transport (Esoteric K-01) will beat my computer audio set-up for redbook CD
2. For hi-rez, the same computer set-up beats redbook CD in the transport
3. A top-notch computer set-up may or may not beat the transport for redbook CD

I think that is what dvavc wants to find out but can't in Steve's room which does not have a transport for comparison.
I am also keen for that kind of comparison and will need to bring Steve's computer rig home for the answer. But where I live, I will never be able to do this due to lack of availability of Steve's well-received products and so this mystery will remain unresolved for me.