Tvad, thank you for a great forum and as usual, your opinion is strait down to the point and very valuable. You explained what actually going in with a computer based set-up very well. Im just starting to think about the computer front end but obviously now days it is not yet as simple as putting CD in a tray of the CD player and press a play button. Those little networking and computer tweaking details and settings that may make a set-up problematic and may be easy only for mac an pc savy people those details are missing from many forums and sales pitches and on a paper everything loooks like plug and play.
Also another important point that I could not get a clear answer yet, how does the computer based set-up (lets say all key aspects of it like best async USB, best ripping and playing software, solid state HD and great DAC are there) compared with playing the same cd thru the same DAC+ CD transport or the CD player with equal quality DAC that have that async USB? Did you try to do any A/B testing?
Any comments of yours will be very appreciated.
Also another important point that I could not get a clear answer yet, how does the computer based set-up (lets say all key aspects of it like best async USB, best ripping and playing software, solid state HD and great DAC are there) compared with playing the same cd thru the same DAC+ CD transport or the CD player with equal quality DAC that have that async USB? Did you try to do any A/B testing?
Any comments of yours will be very appreciated.