CD playback through computer

[kaushik]

In that "high end PC" there would only be two bits that really matter for CD playback:

--- The CD drive, and they are probably all much the same

--- The sound card or DAC, which might not even be part of the PC itself.

very true..
there is no point discussing CDrom evolution,the inherent bugs in 'generic pc'
will make a low q audio for sure

there are high end players with cdrom,tweaked largely for audio,like this
A better-sounding way to play CDs | The Audiophiliac - CNET News

but very expensive

hdd playback is the way to go,use DAC,s.card as needed.

this is coz of awesome playback convenience,of foobar like player.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

The PWT Memory Player changes all that forever by first extracting the music from the CD or DVD and then placing it into our Digital Lens memory buffer. When you play a disc you are never listening to the real time stream from the CD or DVD.

You can do that on a PC if you want to ...and have several thousand dollars to spend on music, or even a better DAC.

I regularly see products that make me gaze wistfully at the emptiness of the wallet, but this is not one one of them. $4,000, and I still have to buy the DAC. $4,000 on the hardly-earth-shattering technology of buffering?. Oh, sorry: it's not buffering, it's a "digital lens:" does this sound like it came from the engineering dept ...or the marketing dept?

I was going to complain about the built-in boulder too. Like WTF is that, and is it worth $4,000? ...then I discovered they mean built in Boulder (USA), so I'm now laughing at myself instead . But I still don't think that's worth $4,000!

Well, it's just one product. Some grab us, others don't; this one does nothing for me, but it might delight others. I'd either spend that money on a studio-quality DAC, or a higher-end CD player which has, I'm happy to admit, despite the exaggerated use of the J word in digital audio, have the advantages of closely-linked transport and DAC.

Hey Ho! I'm feeling cynical today

 

[musicbee]

I was going to complain about the built-in boulder too. Like WTF is that, and is it worth $4,000? ...then I discovered they mean built in Boulder (USA)

That made me crack up!

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

I'm glad

But given that there are people who will sell us rocks to put on our hifi, and people that buy them, it was an easy mistake to make :lol:. Added to which, the BBC News site has trained me to expect missing hyphens!

(I keep a brick in the freezer when it is not full of food. Makes the fridge sound much better. No, seriously, it "stores" coldness! I'm thinking, now of putting one in the PC cabinet. But then... How many serious ideas start out as silly ones? Because it must, at least, affect the resonant qualities of the box, and, hey, that might affect something, beginning with the sound of the fans?)

 

[musicbee]

I'm glad

But given that there are people who will sell us rocks to put on our hifi, and people that buy them, it was an easy mistake to make :lol:

Like they say...

There's a sucker born every minute!

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Sounds like just what I need to attach the rock to my amplifier? Is it a special hifi sucker?