Oldfentiger
Veteran
- Location
- Pendle, Lancs
My take on this......
Analogue signals - better quality cables give big benefits.
Digital signal - better quality cables are a waste of money.
Of course I could be talking rubbish
Any HI-FI Buffs on here ?? I need some advice.
- Thread starter Dave7
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My take on this......
Analogue signals - better quality cables give big benefits.
Digital signal - better quality cables are a waste of money.
Of course I could be talking rubbish
swee'pea99
Squire
Having said which, probably best not to take a good thing to excess...
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Gosh, Charlie Parker Be Bop Vol 2 was one of my dad's favourite records, in fact I think it's in my collection now...somewhere.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
The 'wow' sounds like a very low frequency base note that starts quietly and rises in volume and then fades away again. Minor stuff but it did irritate me.
As for the snap, crackle and pop - it used to annoy the living daylights out of me during quiet moments in the recording. It just shouldn't be there.
Mind you, with my old ears these days I doubt I could even hear these 'imperfections'!
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Well that's 2 decent albums you have ...
swee'pea99
Squire
Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I downloaded Cool Edit, since bought up by Adobe and re-packaged as Audition, to transfer my records to digital. It had a snap, crackle and pop filter, which was excellent. The whole process was so tortuous though I gave up and just re-bought them on CD
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Naim amp + Naim cd player with B&W CM7 Speakers blows away anything streamed.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Naim amp + Naim cd player with B&W CM7 Speakers blows away anything streamed.
How?
Substitute the digital CD input for a lossless (eg WAV or FLAC) streamed digital input and you will have exactly the same output.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
You need to listen to them side by side which i can do, There is quite a lot of difference.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
I was in much the same position and got a Denon CEOL Piccolo off Superfi for £130 ex demo, kept Wharfdale Diamond speakers and Goldring GR2 turntable (new Ortofon Red and Project Phono box).. it sounds great 65W nice and loud, internet radio is genius. I used to work in a hifi shop and had Naim/Dynaudio set up before this... a lot of diminishing returns with hi fi!
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
What's the other one?
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
You can make your own liquid for a million times less.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
The Kinks - Low Budget :-)
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
You need to listen to them side by side which i can do, There is quite a lot of difference.
I can. There isn't.
Seriously - tell me how one lossless medium can sound different to another lossless medium through the same equipment? It's exactly the same digital signal being converted to an analogue output, some gain applied and then dumped through the speakers.
It's just not possible.
The only thing I can think of is that you are comparing something like a streamed MP3 to a CD?
