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By: Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:09:08 +0000

Hi, Cool post on g a no-compromise music player, part I at Techgoondu, I’m looking forward to reading more of your site.

By: limbeer

limbeer — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:54:24 +0000

Where’s part two??

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:41:44 +0000

Thanks Albert for bringing up the DAC issue. I agree with Boon Kiat about external DACs. I use an M-Audio Firewire Solo and there’s an audible difference over my Rev A Intel iMac’s built-in sound chip. The problem with a lot of firewire audio interfaces is that the software driver can make a huge difference to the sound, although the actual processing takes place in the hardware.

QNAP eh? I must check it out. Thanks for the heads up Alfred.

By: Boon Kiat

Boon Kiat — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:01:44 +0000

I will be suggesting next the use of an external DAC. I am actually using one tethered to my PC via a USB-to-SPDIF connector. On sound quality, I grew up on LP records, which sounds far superior to CDs in general, and hence all that I am trying to do is just to close the gap between both my sources. Actually, I found PC audio to be better sounding than playback through CD players in the same price range. Not to mention far more convenient. It is the way to go – if we stick to uncompressed or lossless audio that is.

By: Alfred Siew

Alfred Siew — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:56:37 +0000

Actually, as a NAS fan, I’d suggest QNAP’s TurboNAS TS209. Duo drives with RAID1 so you don’t lose any of your precious music easily. Plus, it is a quiet unit, with a fan that doesn’t spin up most times and is quiet even when it does. Best of all, it’s fast, so you can stream movies as well. You can run iTunes server, watever else you want.. there’s a vibrant community with new plug-ins all the time. Go to http://www.qnap.com

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:50:27 +0000

If you’re an audiophile, the biggest problem is getting a really good digital player. PCs and Macs are not that impressive for their DAC playback.

But then again, there’s “audio-bliss” if you can’t hear the difference or go “spoil” your ears by listening to something superior.

By: Boon Kiat

Boon Kiat — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:17:50 +0000

Hey PC! The ibook will be perfect, since digital music streamed from the Mac platform is bit-accurate, unlike an untweaked XP system, which molests the music bits via a legacy audio driver called the K-Mixer. Vista is fine though.

Hi Steph, not knowing what ‘Aliens Ate My Buick’ shows you are very youthful Oops, or does it show I am not very, er, youthful? This is actually an older, late 80s release from the grandfather of electro-music Thomas Dolby, who sang ‘She Blinded Me with Science’. Know that song? It has the line that every mad professor would wanna use on their cute lab assistants:

Good heavens Miss Sakamoto… you’re beautiful!

I don’t believe it!

There she goes again!

She’s tidied up, and I can’t find anything!