julian2002
Muper Soderator
m/c,
one word.... jitter. pc's are not noted for their lack of electrical noise and jitter is completely irrelevant when reading data from hard drive. jitter is a killer for good sounding audio.
cd players range from 50psec to about 3000 psec of jitter a computer drive would be at least an order of magnitude above that, i guess.
unless you dac had some anti jitter buffer (dac 64) or was able to demand data from the drive under a single clock control (clock link, dcs, wadia, et al) then your hard drive will not sound so hot.
i'm not saying it's impossible but at present i doubt you'd get as good a sound as a decent dedicated transport.
the problems aren't insurmountable and with things like wi-fi and bluetooth the possibilities of having a genuine multimedia server off in another room storing all your video and audio are very exciting however if you are interested in quality then i doubt it's going to cut the mustard in the long run (at present). i suspect though that there are a number of companies working on this and that the paradigm for music delivery will change drasticly in the comming years.
cheers
julian
one word.... jitter. pc's are not noted for their lack of electrical noise and jitter is completely irrelevant when reading data from hard drive. jitter is a killer for good sounding audio.
cd players range from 50psec to about 3000 psec of jitter a computer drive would be at least an order of magnitude above that, i guess.
unless you dac had some anti jitter buffer (dac 64) or was able to demand data from the drive under a single clock control (clock link, dcs, wadia, et al) then your hard drive will not sound so hot.
i'm not saying it's impossible but at present i doubt you'd get as good a sound as a decent dedicated transport.
the problems aren't insurmountable and with things like wi-fi and bluetooth the possibilities of having a genuine multimedia server off in another room storing all your video and audio are very exciting however if you are interested in quality then i doubt it's going to cut the mustard in the long run (at present). i suspect though that there are a number of companies working on this and that the paradigm for music delivery will change drasticly in the comming years.
cheers
julian