Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Ripping CDs to your computer -- the audiophile way

No harm taken.

I did work at a computer manufacturing company for about a year...and I really have built that many computers. Anywhere from 5-20 in a day. Anyways, that's beside the point.


Does anyone use just their PC to play music like I do? Using winamp or whatever.

And, I'm sitting like...2-3 feet from my speakers therefore I think I can tell the difference much easier between bitrates.

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Does anyone use just their PC to play music like I do? Using winamp or whatever.

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Not even when I'm at my computer. I have an H/K FL-8550 5 disc carousel hooked up via coaxial digital.

I likes me my uncompressed shiny discs that require no processing power to play.

Bren R.

Your distance from the speakers doesn't really have much to do with how clearly you can hear the differences -- unless your amp is crap and turning it up to compensate for greater listening distances introduces distortion.

Actually, yeah, I use Winamp on the PC to listen through my 2:1 HK speakers. I'm satisfied, especially with the midrange, but don't consider myself a hardcore audiophile (yet). I was even satisfied with the JBLs that came with my 1996 Compaq Presario, 'cept for the utter lack of bass.

On an unrelated note, the prewiring is done on the HT and I'm about to order the Outlaw 990 & 7125 - yee-hah! Will be up and running by March Madness, hopefully. Hoops-fully? [groan]

medic8r

Thanks for posting. To date i've been frustrated with the packages i've been able to find online, so this was the answer to the question I hadn't even posted yet

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I have been doing it before Napster (RIP) and since day one it's been EAC and Lame and 320. All played through Winamp unless I'm doing a lot of work on the computer. If I need all the resources I can get, I use Foobar2000 as it has a much smaller foot print then Winamp.

I can honestly say that I think I'm coming up on year 7 or 8 of having my computer feed my HT system with music! :-)

I've been having great results with the lossless WMA codec.

At first, I wasn't warm to embrace yet another Micro$oft product, but it does work well.


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I had to revive this thread after reading about a rather expensive but very cool toy coming soon from Olive: 400GB of storage, integrated 802.11g, Burr-Brown 24-bit DACs...for the low, low price of $3000.

Might as well build an HTPC for what they are asking for that. You would get a lot more functionality.

Ouch.

All the specs of a moderate PC at a much higher price.

Bren R.