Re: Overkill?

Marriott, Bill (US - Dallas) wrote:

>>> It's not overkill, though, because it sounds _really_ good and
>>> makes me happy :-)
> And that's the whole key right?  I have tried that on my wife as
> justification for buying a new component - it has never worked.  Any
> hints on the approach?

Suggest to her that it's probably cheaper than a night in a whorehouse? ;-)

Back to original topic... the thing that's surprised me is that the
Audiotron running through the Black Box 50 actually sounds better than
taking an analogue out from my Technics CD player (SL-PG590). By that I
mean in terms of detail - the one thing that MP3 tends to lose.

I was previously running the downstairs Audiotron into a Sony MD deck
set to DAC mode (the internal DAC on the Audiotron is fairly poor, but
that doesn't matter to me as I do everything via SPDIF). It sounded
good, but not a patch on what it sounds like now. As for running the CD
player into the BB50, well... bloody amazing is the only way I can
describe it.

I've done a comparison between CD and Audiotron playing WAV into the
BB50 and there's no noticeable difference, so I think I'm going to
re-rip all my CDs as WAVs now I have the disk space to do so, and just
keep MP3 for downloaded music.

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