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In Reply to: RE: Eversolo DMP A8 vds AR CD3 posted by JohnL on May 16, 2024 at 01:13:50
ARC CD3 is built like a tank, and the CD2 Pro 2 is a great-sounding transport, a combo difficult to find these days.
YMMV but whenever I hear a comparison among CD vs Local File vs Streaming (provided the music was mastered the same and at same bit/kHz):
CD via a great transport just seems to have an extra liveliness and air. Annoying little things like transport footers, isolation, coax cable make large differences.
Local File is influenced heavily the operating system, playback software, settings, hardware, etc, but in general sounds smoother, softer, rounder comapred to CD. Many audiophiles would prefer this type of sound.
Streaming is also influenced heavily by software, hardware, network but in general seems to hit sort of a middle ground. Enough liveliness and enough roundness, although audio systems tuned already for smoothness will likely sound better via physical CD's spinning.
Follow Ups:
CDs are ripped to the Eversolo via a USB 3 computer drive connected to the Eversolo. The whole process is controlled by the Eversolo software. The CD files are stored in FLAC format on a 2TB SSD that I installed into the Eversolo (slot provided). During playback the Eversolo reads the FLAC files from the SSD and runs them through the internal DAC. So nothing is read from any network.
The only difference when I use the CD3 is that the digital output from the player is transfered to the Eversolo via a cheap but pretty good 75 ohm coaxial cable.It's then processed by the Eversolo DAC.
The CD3 is indeed built like a tank. But not so the Phillips CD Pro2 drive. Which had failed on my unit. Luckily I managed to source a replacement from China via Ali Express for about one fifth the price I was quoted for repair locally. And it works perfectly.
Jon L gave you pretty good explanation and I want to add that you should use dbpoweramp (a free app) to rip a CD from your computer and then uploaded to the SSD drive on the EverSolo to see if there is any difference in encoding.
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This is good advice. To be clear dBPoweramp is a great app, but it's not free.
Exact Audio Copy (PC) or X Lossless Decoder (Mac) are free and very good but not as versatile or user-friendly as dBP.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
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