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In Reply to: RE: Nothing to save.. posted by Todd Krieger on January 14, 2011 at 17:59:36:
...not having had your experience with the various gear you mentioned. However I do believe that a well-executed recording can sound fantastic on well chosen and set up components regardless of price.
My initial point was that excellent sound can be had for less than an outrageous investment, with currently available equipment, even new equipment.
Back in the day, I hated CDs because at least in the early days I felt that the technology and the recordings failed to reach their potential.
Even my modest AR + Shure M95ED + Marantz 1060 + Dynaco A25s was clearly better than any CD player I could afford at the time. The epiphany came when I realized that the DACs in those early players sucked, and that it (at the time) was rare that proper CDs were even being made.
I think the quality level of well recorded CDs has improved markedly in the last ten years, provided we disregard things like loudness wars and concentrate on using the medium to its potential.
And thanks to error-correcting rips, we can dump the transport component altogether, or at least replace it with a hard drive. What a plus that is. Rip once, play often. Cool. And none of this technology is outrageously expensive, and we're not bound to 44.1/16 anymore.
So it's all good. Except that a bad recording is still just that, but that's true of any medium. Even vinyl, which I still enjoy.
It is a paradigm shift, I firmly believe.
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