True. Basically power is not clean enough to get real HQ out of the PC. I run optical out of my e-mu 1212m (which I also use for home recordings) to a external DAC made by HeadRoom. Check out http://head-fi.org/; tons of people who very enthusiastic/nerdily obsessed with great audio, there is even a computer-as-source forum!
Anybody else remember loudeye from their days as the parent company of "overpeer," who hosted fake music files on p2ps?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051212-5748 .html
Well, they are forever on my shit-list for that, and now nokia is too. I still don't understand why someone would pay a dollar a song for poor-quality.mp3s when the actual CD is about the same price (cheaper used). Think I'll be stickin to allofmp3 and my good ole ipod.
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True. Basically power is not clean enough to get real HQ out of the PC. I run optical out of my e-mu 1212m (which I also use for home recordings) to a external DAC made by HeadRoom. Check out http://head-fi.org/; tons of people who very enthusiastic/nerdily obsessed with great audio, there is even a computer-as-source forum!
Anybody else remember loudeye from their days as the parent company of "overpeer," who hosted fake music files on p2ps? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051212-5748 .html
Well, they are forever on my shit-list for that, and now nokia is too. I still don't understand why someone would pay a dollar a song for poor-quality .mp3s when the actual CD is about the same price (cheaper used). Think I'll be stickin to allofmp3 and my good ole ipod.