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Is there a Rosetta Stone for digital speak?

Trying to transition from CD transport and DAC to computer HD based system without making horrific mistteps. Running into a hail storm of tech speak and different formats which keeps me on the fence indefinitely waiting for the whole thing to reach some sort of stability.

Willing to invest a respectable amount for longer term viability of the components, but which direction?

Purchased and then returned without using the Mojo system as I started counting up how many separate pieces to make it all work. Ridiculous!!! And I'm not just picking on Mojo. Make fun of Bose as we all do, but a simple two box solution would be welcomed.

Does some manufacturer have this figured out? Thanks for understanding the rant.
celtic66
jonathan1257
82 posts
 
Hi admranger. You wrote: "my cpu is smoking hot up converting all my iTunes songs to a better format so I can see if my old ears can tell a difference." Just a heads-up that if your "iTunes songs" were originally imported as mp3 files, you will not gain any sonic benefits from upconverting. Good luck.

-Jon
admranger
144 posts
 
Most of my music was imported from my CDs into apple lossless files. I understand that it would be hard to get too much upside to converting 256k files... That's a lot of missing info.
celtic66 OP
1,674 posts
 
Thank you for all of the excellent suggestions.
jonathan1257
82 posts
 
Hi, Admranger:
No intention to be patronizing--just wanted to be sure you were not going to waste time upsampling low rez music.
admranger
144 posts
 
Jonathan1257: I didn't take it as patronizing. However, I am wondering why I need anything but iTunes to do playback, etc. since I have no files higher than CD's that I imported. The Fidelia tech people I was in contact with when their software kept crashing say that up sampling has no benefit at all! Again, why do I need Fidelia or Audirvana unless I buy hi-res files?

I'm not interested in re-buying my CD library as hi-res files, so I guess I'll stick with what I have. If I want to play songs via the Sabre's in my Oppo 95, I have a 32gb thumb drive I can download them to.
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