Re: Sound quality question

"Iordani" <somewhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:fudnus0299f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I have a sound system which I'm very pleased with.
> (System Audio Explorer speakers and Musical Fidelity A300 amp and A3
> CD-player)
>
> If I were to convert my CDs to some lossless file format and store them
on
> an (external) hard disk drive and then play them using computer and some
> media player to feed my amp,  would there be any theoretical or real
> difference in sound quality compared to using my CD player.
>
> Answers and/or pointers highly appreciated.

Both theoretically and practically, there should be no difference between
a 
CD played on a CD player, and the same audio off a hard-disk. This of
course 
assumes that the sound card in the PC is of decent quality. The audio
system 
on the motherboard of some PCs is sufficiently poor that it could well
sound 
worse than the CD player, but if you buy a good card, then there will be
no 
difference.

S.

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