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In Reply to: Any thoughts about digital music servers posted by jedinvest on August 16, 2006 at 17:53:04:
> Seems to me this will be the wave of the future. Insert your
> CD once and never again. Just play off of the hard disk. Of
> course, without using an intermediary computer.No, not "of course, without an intermediary computer". If you don't have an intermediary computer then it just means that there's a computer _inside_ the source component itself, which is an primitive and downright ass-stupid approach to digital music, IMO. What if you have a second music system? Then that digital music server is for all intent and purpose exactly like having an intermediary computer. Many audiophiles are curious about the new technology, yet they insist on an child-simple system that they can use. That's about all that systems like those from Olive accomplish - they're essentially a dumbing down of computer based audio.
> Just wondering how close the high-end is to adopting this
> technology. It would seem to me a no-brainer to go this route
> in the near future. Now, will the interface be SPDIF or should
> it be USB??It's all over the place, although the reasons for adoption by the "high end" and more general consumer audio manufacturers differs slightly. At least at the marketing end of things. The high end will push it as being superior due to not having to spin a CD and do real-time reading of audio from that CD. Decreased jitter and blah blah blah and physics and marketing and blah blah blah and engineering and marketing and blah blah blah. The same shit we've been subjected to since the dawn of CDs. Consumer audio companies will push the platform for its convenience, and simplicity of whole house audio (which spells $$$ for most of the remaining brick and mortar audio dealers).
We've only seen a fraction of what will soon be on the market. It's obvious already that no two will have exactly the same approach. That in itself is going to be a major hurdle to the typical audiphile, many of whom appear to need to be told what's "best".
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- Yeah - J.Mac 02:55:08 08/18/06 (1)
- Never mind -- I found the device I am looking for -- an iPod! - jedinvest 07:31:04 08/18/06 (0)
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