The shape of things to come?

Zip is surprisingly CRAP at compressing music!

But anyway, yeah FLAC is great. I would have quoted how much space 1000 albums would take in that but I didn't know the compression ratio.

You can assume an average album is 600mb. 1000 albums = 600GB or compressed with FLAC (lossless) about 150GB.

MP3, at any compression rate, is BAD as far as audiophiles are concerned. Stay away from it at all costs.

MO, I don’t think Active Hiatus meant to insult you… It is hardly obvious from the initials that it stands for lossless.

 

And I'm not insulted, nor did I think that was his intention

I was self MOcking.

I've found zip to be crap with MOst things, with it only taking a small percent off which tends not to be worth the effort.

 

.. is that the new post-modern neo-ironic MOcking?

 

post-MOdern

 

MOving on ,,,

so, is this the shape of things to come for us 2-channel hifi-audiophile types?

 

Is this the machine reviewed in the latest HiFi World? Its abilities sound remarkably like it.

 

With HDD technology why does it need to be limited to 2 channel? but yes, I certainly see the realm of audio going this way.

 

There's no reason why the old and new technologies can't co-exist. I'm sure that some HiFi enthusiasts would even consider the uncompressed files good enough to be a main source. Done well this technology could breath life back into the mid-price HiFi market.

Sub £1000 CD players have had a rough ride the last few years with the onslaught of AV. It's high time that HiFi fought back with something really new and fresh not just an update of the same model lines from the last 20 yrs. Who better than the Regas, Myriads, Cyrus's (sp) etc to produce a HD version of a Linn Classik.

more later, perhaps...