A good solution to music-from-PC is to optically connect to your amp. Obviously this is no help if you're missing either an optical-out on your PC or an optical-in on your amp [note to self for next upgrade]. But for those suitably endowed it leaves the DA conversion to the amp - horses for courses and all that.
00110011001100110011... It is always two 0's followed by two 1's. This can be compressed to 0101010101... etc.
Fair enough, but are you telloing me that all frequencies are included in the files and there is no filtering? No cut out of frequencies below 20Hz or above 20kHz? If so, I take it all back.What's wrong with the scale? It's based on the above premise of filtering and cut-out.Edit: I think my other point was: why bother making a file type, then needing to use something else to compress it. Why not just design it better to start with?
However, the PC storage methods (MP3, MP4, WMA, WAV etc etc etc) are the weak point in the system. You can hear the loss of certain frequencies, or even bands. Even using Optical you won't correct this, so you may as well use a 3.5 headphone plug into 2 phonos!
DAT samples at 48kHZ, infinite bitrate, no frequency range limitations.Vinyl samples at infinite Hz and infinite bitrate with no frequency limits. Hence my order of quality before.
Bubba: If the music file is lossless, truly lossless, and nowt but lossless, then OK- PC tunes can sound as good as top end hi-fi
Bubbs: how does .flac compare to .wav?
Enjoy your listening people!
Is there a high-end CD player that will read formats like .flac?