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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (8334)	5/11/2000 10:36:00 PM
From: appro	Respond to of 9256

Mark, You might want to investigate devices such as the Yamaha RP-U100 PC Receiver which were designed with higher quality audio reproduction in mind. I have not yet installed something like this, but I am considering it. I expect to see more audio oriented PC components very soon. The current state of audio from a PC is hampered by passing through the lowest quality semiconductor amplifiers. crutchfield.com

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (8334)	5/11/2000 11:16:00 PM
From: Z Analyzer	Respond to of 9256

<<Now that you've had a chance to play music off your hard drive, is it really satisfying? >> Sound quality doesn't bother me but my music skips everytime the computer does something.

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (8334)	5/12/2000 7:42:00 AM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Now that you've had a chance to play music off your hard drive, is it really satisfying? Mark, while the sound quality isn't as good as on my home stereos it's not that bad. And it's easier just to open napster and build a playlist of a dozen songs or so than it is to use my CD player. but it's my 13 year old who is most active on napster, and he's far less discriminating than I am. But beyond that, it's a great way to sample music. After getting a couple songs from a CD I'm thinking of picking up, I'll listen to them a few times and if I still like them, I buy it. And I've discovered some great music when I've downloaded songs by mistake. I've also found that doing other things on the computer doesn't affect listening to napster files, but it does frequently with other net music, like spinner.com.