![]() ![]() But when Apple introduced Apple Lossless Compression, which shrinks the file to 45≥5% of its original size with no loss in sound quality, I got into the idea big-time. Even at 320kbps, Apple's AAC codec does not sound as clean or as transparent as the original uncompressed 16-bit/44.1kHz AIF or WAV files, and as for MP3s at 128kbps, fuggetabowdit (as we say in Brooklyn). ![]() I had been sniffy about iTunes until late 2003, because until then the only compression algorithms it had offered were lossy. In the last year or so, therefore, I've been using Apple's iTunes software running on my Apple PowerBook to feed the Mark Levinson or Benchmark DACs in my he-man rig using either a professional FireWire interface (a $1500 Metric Halo MIO2882 DSP) or a $129 Apple Airport Express Wi-Fi hub. I now smile when I see 160GB hard drives selling for less than $100 the 2GB drive that seemed so enormous 12 years ago cost $2000! That Sonic system was and is optimized for music production, however, and is not suitable for general use. I'm getting more and more e-mails from readers asking for advice, Wes Phillips wrote about transferring his LPs to audio files in his October and November newsletters, and a lively thread on this topic is currently running on the forum at With my production work for the Stereophile recordings, I early got into playing back music files on a computer, when the magazine purchased a Sonic Solutions Digital Audio Workstation at the end of 1993. ![]() How to integrate a computer into a high-end audio system is a hot topic these days. ![]() Music Servers & the Olive Symphony, by John Atkinson That Difficult Second Album., by Ken Kessler Music Servers & the Olive Symphony, by John Atkinson ![]()
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