Where do you purchase your lossless digital music? CDs are only 16bit so it is not stellar to rip a CD as the music source and use with a 24bit DAC.
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There are a few places online you can purchase HD music, HDTracks and Acousticsounds SuperHiRez are the main stream ones, but there are others just Google "HD Music Downloads" and you will see the rest. Ponomusic will also have them at some point in the future, my guess would be around October when they ship their first players.
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there is this great website where people share music its called something like the bay of pirates or something, but on a more serious note (pun intended) bandcamp.com has lossless
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Check out the Pono Store !! Also, they let you buy individual tracks (HDTracks does not!!)
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I disagree. I have purchased 24bit music from HDTracks and found that the sound quality was inferior to the same track ripped to FLAC from a CD. I bought Rush "Spirit of Radio" from HDTracks and wound up going back to the FLAC versions I ripped from my 1987 release of Moving Pictures. To assume that just because some music is superior because it was remastered to 24bit will leave you with less money - believe me, I'm a victim. If you have some CD's from the mid-80's to around 1992 you're better off (IMO) ripping them with foobar2000 or EAC to FLAC, WAV, or ALAC. Before buying a 24bit HD version do comparisons of the dynamic range of the original cd against the remaster/rerelease on dr(dot)loudness-war(dot)info. I've actually started trolling yard sales for early CD releases for this very reason, I think you'll be happy you did - I know your wallet will be.
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HDTracks (dot com) an amazing place to get HD (96k,24bit etc) music of all types...
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I agree with K.Mitchell. I also bought a couple of albums at 192kHz/24bit and was extremely disappointed when I A/B them against files that were ripped from my CDs. Total waste of money I actually deleted the files.
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not there i know so far, now cd's are with all due respect,history, unless the performer is a mid/low one class type, all is now about mp3 or usb memories, ipods, and that why i guess deWalt or other reputable cordless power tools manufacturers are not giving the cd playing choice on the job site radios they offer, sorry but that is the way progress runs this days...
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Mr. Moore, the advice seems to make no sense. Isn't a "Digital Audio" disc a CD? DVD for video and CD for music, speeches, etc. I have burned hundreds of Sony DVDs over the years and not one has let me down. Be sure and use the format, DVD- or DVD+, that your recorder burns. In my experience DVD- discs will work for the vast majority of recorders, but yours might require DVD+ discs. Paul
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As the RR2150 is built as an analog piece, the only input that utilizes a DAC is the USB input. It is a 16 bit DAC, able to do full CD quality sound, and is compliant with USB 2.0's full speed specification.
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The Gemini Doctor himself says that you need a CD player as an audio source.... what is this world coming to? You're actually going to need a full blown record player as a source, as digital is for losers. Digital isn't really for losers, it just seems like there's no reason to get an analog amp if you're going to use a digital source. Generally analog people don't like their signal being converted back and forth and losing some of that sweet, sweet warmth to the digital mittleman. Sure you could use a .flac recording that's "lossless" but is it really? I'd rather not find out and spin the black circle when I want a really rich music listening experience and leave that .mp3 malarky for when I'm on the go. From here on out you won't find me without my record player in my place of residence. Anyway, you're going to need 1) a record player 2) records to play on that record player 3) speakers or headphones 4) this device or something that accomplishes the same task
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These TDK music perform very well on my ONKYO CD recorder, thus I asume they also will record satisfactorily on any other CD recorder. as long as the CD's feature the Word "music". I hope this information is useful to you. regards
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There are many possibilities for ripping CDs. If you want to rip to FLAC, use the recommendations below but you do not necessarily need to rip to FLAC. You can use MP3 format which is much more efficient. Unless you are an audiophile with high end equipment, it is difficult to notice the difference. Windows Media Player works just fine if you use a PC. The Sony will play just about any format.
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***********David W. Wilkins says:What is the difference between MP3 downloads and ITune downloads? Can they both go on an Ipod Classic? Thanks. ********The biggest difference is that most music on iTunes (and most other download services) has activation DRM on it. You don't own what you're "buying".You're MUCH better off buying MP3s from Amazon's music store, which doesn't have DRM. (Note that Amazon's video store DOES have DRM). Or of course the best choice is buying a CD, which has no DRM, and the highest audio quality, and can be easily ripped at any bit rate or format you want for your iPod. ***********David W. Wilkins says:What is the difference between MP3 downloads and ITune downloads? Can they both go on an Ipod Classic? Thanks. ********The biggest difference is that most music on iTunes (and most other download services) has activation DRM on it. You don't own what you're "buying".You're MUCH better off buying MP3s from Amazon's music store, which doesn't have DRM. (Note that Amazon's video store DOES have DRM). Or of course the best choice is buying a CD, which has no DRM, and the highest audio quality, and can be easily ripped at... » Read More ***********David W. Wilkins says:What is the difference between MP3 downloads and ITune downloads? Can they both go on an Ipod Classic? Thanks. ********The biggest difference is that most music on iTunes (and most other download services) has activation DRM on it. You don't own what you're "buying".You're MUCH better off buying MP3s from Amazon's music store, which doesn't have DRM. (Note that Amazon's video store DOES have DRM). Or of course the best choice is buying a CD, which has no DRM, and the highest audio quality, and can be easily ripped at any bit rate or format you want for your iPod. « Show Less
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Yes! But I know this not because of this past buying. I never got the "CD"'s. In the past they were very good but now Sony has stopped making them and some people are selling regular "CD"'s, putting them in marked cases of "MUSIC" when they are not music cd's. Be careful!
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If you go into iTunes preferences, you can have iTunes rip cds into mp3 format. Use that instead.
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I've used Windows media player to rip my cd's in wav lossless format. The headphone jack is a standard 3.5mm one. Most headphones should fit.
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I have played a CD in the portable DV/CD. it sounds fine for me. I don't know if you might want a louder sound, I hear it mainly during the night & don't need a louder sound, that's why I got a portable one. it's what you prefer. the sound is not as loud as some people might want.
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The are both the same crappy MP3 format!! If you care about audio quality you will use Apple Lossless. The trouble is this prevents you from D/L Songs or Albums. The best way is to buy the CD and rip it to iTunes. You can change the format you rip it in "Preferences" on iTunes....Import...format. You can however go to HDtracks.com and get great Audio Quality D/L's although their selection is not probably what you are looking for and more expensive than just buy the CD. Magoo I know D/L is convenient but it returns horrible quality!!!!! Take any CD you know very well and rip a song or two to iTunes in Apple LossLess. Then D/L that same song(s) and you should be able to easily hear the difference! If you just want background noise then continue to D/L the MP3's. Life is all about priorities!!! Magoo
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I did not download music only ripped from cds. The included software should make it pretty easy though. Sorry not more help.
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Did you have the same CD player with your old reciever? My guess would be that if anything is going wrong as far as reading a data disk as music, it would have to do with what you were using to read it, not the reciever. I'm actually surprised that you had a system that could use a data disk in such a way, because I've never seen one work like that.
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Lawrence/Melton, thanks for the info! I am thinking about .atrac for nostalgic reasons. Some years down the road, when Sony folds and ATRAC becomes public domain, perhaps ATRAC files will be more playable.. ;) But looks like PCM/WAV is the way to go, as someone else mentioned that I will be transcoding the audio if I save it as ATRAC3+. So I will probably just do PCM and convert it to FLAC for archival and playback. The CDs will be for giving to my relatives so they can play it on any CD player. Not as a storage/archival medium. That'll be on my RAID harddrive. I am picturing another scenario. After all these work (and $$$ to buy the MZ-M200) to upload a pristine copy of the recording to my computer, and put the MD away for storage in my attic/craw space, something happens and I lose the copy on my raided HD, the copy on my RAID NAS, the copy on my offline HD, and the copy on my offsite storage, and I am back to square one, bidding on an MZ-R200 from ebay (as I've probably sold mine), paying dearly, to do this all over again. ;) Well, of course this won't happen, as I can probably still hunt down the copy I gave to my relative, but the thoughts have occurred to me. ;) In the end, I think the MD would've cost me more than if I had purchased a professional DAT player in the first place. There are so much that can be said about why MD failed and how utterly stupid Sony is, I am not going to say anything other than Steve Jobs is the best answer to Sony's paranoia about copy protection. Protected a few pennies, but missed out on billions.
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Just an FYI:I'd suggest anyone read the Touch spec's very carefully. If using a USB drive connected to the Touch then the music files must be in a format *native* to the Touch. There is no transcoding using the Touch's inbuilt server.Also, Digital outs from Touch to AVR/receiver will work great, but then you are bypassing one of Touch's great selling points being it's very good DAC. Most AVR/receiver DAC's will not be as good as is included with the Touch.