Connecting and playback
One of the basic sources is the DTR 6-9 dvd player by Integra. I know from experience that this was lifted to a higher level by the first version of the Musical Fidelity DAC a few years back, and almost blew away my cd player. Curious whether this DAC by Rega will to the same, or even better, raise the standard. The other source is an Apple iPad, but most tests happen with a HDD, hooked up to a Western Digital Life tv, which is connected to the DAC by means of an optical out. As my speakers I use Focal’s Diablo speakers, connected to Nordost’s Red Down.
A good friend of mine put several songs on a Hard Disk Drive, ranging from 16bit/44kHz to 24bit/96kHz, compressed or not, most of the time in FLAC, but sometimes as WAV.
Basically there are two standard, both of which copy all ‘zeroes and ones’ from a cd completely. Windows uses WAV and Apple uses AIF. The difference between these is that one method works from front to back and the other method the other way around. I presume this was thought out well, I just think it’s hard to understand the difference in approach. Complimentary to these systems there’s also FLAC which as its trump card has the fact that it can operate independently. Compressing means the removal of some zeroes and ones, thus reducing the file space. This happens mostly on quiet parts in the song. Depending on the method used, this can reduce the file size up to 50%.
