Hi Henrik, I believe we are talking around one another here. One point is whether the information stored is the same; another is whether it is played back identically. See below for the first. As I have mentioned in this thread, there are strategies for ensuring that your music reveals the integrity of the original in your room. But thinking that what

pedrompinto: Then i read an article saying that you must have your BL5 1,5 m away from your wall to have the most of the sound. That would be my doing - the distance from walls (though I must add that the opinion is that of David Moulton). This depends upon how loud you will be playing, and how large a room you will be filling with your BL5s. For regular

britops: That is what I was thinking. With cheap hard drives these days, I want to make an exact backup of all my CD's at the same quality. Then be able to play these tracks via my BS4 knowing that I am listening to the best copy possible. Have you considered using a Network Attached Server? You can have 1 Terabyte of storage space (well, sky's

Your Weimaraner is scratching its head, I think! My sympathies - sometimes offers are too good to be true. People are so devious!!!

henrik: soundproof: That depends upon the equipment you are using to listen. There is actually a perceivable difference, as one BeoWorlder could study last night stating Apple Lossless was rubbish compared to the original CD: http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/permalink/1154/9443/ShowThread.aspx#9443 Strange. I'm quoting the actual website that you

Actually, transfer from the computer to the Airport Express and on is bit-to-bit true. Stereophile tested this thoroughly, with comparison of files before and after transfer, and found a 100% match when they pulled the signal out of the Toslink optical of the Airport Express. (The same minijack connector supplies a line out and an optical out signal

That depends upon the equipment you are using to listen. There is actually a perceivable difference, as one BeoWorlder could study last night stating Apple Lossless was rubbish compared to the original CD: http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/permalink/1154/9443/ShowThread.aspx#9443 A CD has 16 bit depth and samples the sound at a rate of 44.1 kHz. With

I must resist! But I can get one (black/rosewood) with a Beocord 1100.

http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=331 Worth having? What kind of work needs to be done to get them up to snuff?

philipsmz333: Hehe it was the adrenalin that kicked in! Yes i sampled a few pieces of music last night, at 3am, and 'saw' a hell of a difference. Apple lossless is surprisingly different (rubbish) sounding when compared to a CD which was a surprise. I am very passionate about music, and it wasn't ideal to spend this amount of money (espeacially