I don't think so.
The OP really hears a difference between the various mediums. This can have 2 reasons: 1 the difference is real, or the difference is imagined.
If your dac has no jitter reduction at all, I wouldn't be surprised if there are real audible differences. This is not a common situation at all, some diy dacs could have no jitter reduction, but most dacs do. So there's a high probability that the OP is imaging things. Now cognitive dissonance is kicking in, the OP thinks knowledgeable people must be deaf and is ignoring them.
That's pretty much what I have
The Main server has a primary drive that rsyncs to a secondary drive in the main server.
Then I have a Backup server that rsyncs from the main server. The backup
server's drive is in a pull out drawer so I can pull it out and put it in my safe.
what this does it to protect me from myself to a degree, If I accidentally
delete a file and I realize it right away I can simply restore it from the main
servers secondary drive. If I realize it later (but before the next backup
sync) I can pull it off the Backup servers drive.
I am considering more drives and to do a rotation on the backup server.
I have been working with computers too long as to trust them.
Multiple backups are insurance against loss, the more the better.
Wow - it's always amazing to see the myriad ways in which the record business seek to shoot themselves in the foot. This is the same industry that sells us compressed, clipped, broken, shrill unpleasant recordings in the 33 year old 44.1/16 bit format, who locked down SACD so tight most lost interest and then bleats about the modern consumer not wanting to pay top dollar for some talentless 12 year old droning away about some failed mating ritual.
BTW None of mine are copied, they are all merely buffered prior to playback just like in a CD player 😀
Yes! I've recently purchased a Pioneer BDP-80FD Blu-Ray player, which is one of the models from a while back whose firmware was discovered to be "trainable" to back up SACDs to .iso files (i.e. put them on your server!) for playback via Foobar or any number of methods. As a result, I've lately been purchasing and enjoying SACD's like crazy! The irony of this scenario is, well, pretty ironic.
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I feel that the record industry survives despite the best efforts of the people at the top to sink it. The HiFi ship went down some years ago however thanks for the industries dabbles in digital audio, old shops cling to the surround sound lifeboats and the snake-oil cables keep the rest afloat.
First they removed the dynamics from the music, and made many tracks quite painful to listen to. Sharoma > The Loudness War
Then this meant instruments were often irrelevant as you couldn't hear them anyway now so this caused a focus on vocal and lyrics.
This brought a new series of artists to the fore who were all basically singers aged around 12, bands with talent didn't have much chance here. Look at Xfactor and it's always a singer, not a band. Look at One Direction: imagine Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones etc starting out today - their first single would fail to hit #1 and they'd be back on the pub circuit within weeks today.
Running parallel to this was the refusal to make SACD popular (locking it down) and the now appalling quality of CDs meant that little if anything was lost downloading MP3s, which were small and easy to download anyway.
The only progress in modern sound since around 1995 has been Apple's 'Mastered For iTunes', when I guess Steve Jobs started wondering why all the sound today was rubbish. It worried Apple enough to do that, but doesn't appear to ever have worried the record companies, who still expect us to pay real money for their damaged goods.
I guess this also means that the comparison between CD and HDD is rather less important than the comparison between a 1980s CD and a 2000's CD by many many times.. 😀
That is a very generalised view - they didn't remove the dynamics from the music, it is still there . Just that there was/is a culture of creating compressed releases because it sells for some music. Called free market economics I guess. It is not universal for all music and you will see many releases are less compressed than their previous ones, even than some previous vinyl versions (the same vinyl that people often assume not to suffer from compression).
Again the "artists" you characterise are such an insignificant part of all new releases that they are hardly worth thinking about, even if they are getting all the column inches in mainstream papers and media.
There's never been an age where there has been so much new music and variety out there and so easy to access .
Again the "artists" you characterise are such an insignificant part of all new releases that they are hardly worth thinking about, even if they are getting all the column inches in mainstream papers and media.
There's never been an age where there has been so much new music and variety out there and so easy to access .
The IT (Information Technology) answer to this is:
Neither one is as good as either one with a backup copy.
Or, neither one is nearly as good as both.
As the original question seems to be a practical one about reliability, the answer is to break out of the either-or paradigm of the question and make several copies and put one off-site, perhaps in a safe deposit box. The reliability of a medium is substantially less important when you have backups.
Neither one is as good as either one with a backup copy.
Or, neither one is nearly as good as both.
As the original question seems to be a practical one about reliability, the answer is to break out of the either-or paradigm of the question and make several copies and put one off-site, perhaps in a safe deposit box. The reliability of a medium is substantially less important when you have backups.
One solution to the loudness war: Replay Gain
I use it and its a dream.
Hopefully the major players in the field will start to use it. Until then we have to suffer lifeless music.
I use it and its a dream.
Hopefully the major players in the field will start to use it. Until then we have to suffer lifeless music.
Many players have a similar volume leveling function - in itunes it's sound check.
Also I understand many streaming sources are applying levelling to their music. That more than anything will kill the loudness wars dead.
Also I understand many streaming sources are applying levelling to their music. That more than anything will kill the loudness wars dead.
I disagree.
Assuming the "war" is one like the Cold War where people are battling for the loudest and more compressed music, then leveling functions are no more than building underground bunkers so that people are safe. It then allows there to be more war without as bad consequences.
It doesn't stop the compression if they think you can just correct it in iTunes if you want.
Processing is processing - what are the unintended consequences of that particluar processing? Does it effect other areas of sound quality? You can't retreave all detail that has been lost in the compression.
It wasn't really the question. I did deliberately take it there from the title though... sorry.
The OP's point was that he thought a Raspberry Pi /computer playing a CD from a USB CD/dvd/br drive sounded better than the ripped wav from HDD (presumably networked storage).
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