Paul B wrote:

I think the only concession you'll get here is to replace any freebee
"patch cord" with about the cheapest after-market one you can find &
spend any change on buying some MUSIC!

Replace the freebie one cos it sounds ****. To put it bluntly.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with someone of the cloth-eared
disposition a few years back who was convinced that MP3 sounded better
than CD. This was about 8-9 years ago, when MP3 certainly didn't sound
as good as CD...

Turns out he was comparing MP3 played through the DAC on his PC's sound
card (a Creative SB16, still one of the best sounding budget sound cards
that's been bade) to CD played through the analogue outputs of his
CD-ROM drive.

Which, if people didn't know, uses a resistor ladder array, and produces
rather nasty amounts of distortion. And a S/N ratio of about 45dB
(about the same as cassette without Dolby, or indeed uk.rec.audio in
general, but still considerably higher than Stewart Pinkerton [1]). So
yes, it probably did sound better.

Not quite sure what relevance that has to this conversation, but it's
still an interesting point. Fortunately nowadays if you play an audio CD
on a PC it extracts the audio digitally and plays it through the PC's
sound card...

[1] In the 3 years or so since I've been reading this group, I've never
once seen Pinkerton post anything constructive. His S/N ratio is
probably 1dB...

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