Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

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Stevethecoffee in reply to @ChasnotRobert

Cool, so best get 2 hard drives, keep one connected to the streamer, write to the computer one then copy it across the network?

Oh and does the read-speed matter? Is slower better?

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ChasnotRobert in reply to @Stevethecoffee

As far as I'm aware, read speed doesn't matter. In my set up, the file is buffered in the laptop's ram in any case.

I guess ymmv depending on playback arrangements, but I haven't heard of HD read speed being a thing in terms of sound quality.

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freddo in reply to @ChasnotRobert

CD ROM read speed IS important! Not for quality but if you’re ripping a thousand CDs you don’t want to do it at 1x playback speed.

The constraint on ripping isn’t HD write speed but the speed at which you can pull the data off the CD. so get the fastest one you can :)

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