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Audiophile sound quality off a hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="alanB" data-source="post: 12870" data-attributes="member: 431"><p>Thanks guys (especially gbyleveldt).</p><p></p><p>So If I understand this correctly, its possible to get good audiophile quality sound from a hard drive by:</p><p></p><p>1) Using a separate DAC with either a USB or Firewire connection to the pc</p><p>2) Alternatively one could use a DIY sound card with high quality DAC's etc embedded</p><p>3) I neednt worry about the delays in the operating system, harddrive mechanicals (eg vibration damping, speed control etc etc) becuase its actually "playing" out of a memory buffer (which is where/what....? And how is speed and timing accuracy handled in the buffer?).</p><p></p><p>Is that correct? </p><p></p><p>PS Which DAC's do the studios use? And what extra would you need for movies (hopefully with uncompressed sound and HD visuals or is that a bridge too far at this point?).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alanB, post: 12870, member: 431"] Thanks guys (especially gbyleveldt). So If I understand this correctly, its possible to get good audiophile quality sound from a hard drive by: 1) Using a separate DAC with either a USB or Firewire connection to the pc 2) Alternatively one could use a DIY sound card with high quality DAC's etc embedded 3) I neednt worry about the delays in the operating system, harddrive mechanicals (eg vibration damping, speed control etc etc) becuase its actually "playing" out of a memory buffer (which is where/what....? And how is speed and timing accuracy handled in the buffer?). Is that correct? PS Which DAC's do the studios use? And what extra would you need for movies (hopefully with uncompressed sound and HD visuals or is that a bridge too far at this point?). [/QUOTE]
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