Who has WHAT ? --- Poll ---

[RichB]

Did the poll. See my signature for my gear, since joining this forum I've expanded both the digital and analog capabilities of my systems. This year has seen me add a turntable and tape as well as new DACs and amps.

On the file based side its 3 computers, a tablet, an iPod and a phone with music capability. All of these sources vary widely in quality and listening enjoyment.

[nat8808]

You always miss the point being made don't you Nat and feel the need to have a snipe - quite a knack to be honest

Eh? Do you have a previous greavance?

The "point" in the thread as I understand it fro Audio Al's OP is to guage what music sources (i.e. formats ) people can play in their system, or at least regularly use.

Whether I play a flac on a jailbroken iPod or a dedicated media server I've worked hard to perfect is neither here nor there - the point of interest for the poll is that it is a file, not 8-track tape or a physical CD or slab of vinyl.

If you have spent a lot of effort perfecting your file based player and so feel that effort is being dismissed by including iPod in the same catagory then that's your own issue, nothing to do with the poll IMO.

Do we then have to have a catagory for people with a DIY, 5 box mega CD player in case it gets lumped in with a bashed 90s portable plugged into the system?

Maybe snobbery is not the right word then - not sure what other word to use to describe the need to differenciate your better player from a more lowly one. Help me with that if you like.

Just a fun poll..

[nat8808]

Really not sure what to say - presume this is just a wind up?

If the poll wants to know if you play files rather than a physical CD but one feels the need to cry out loud that your file based player is much better than a crappy iPod then I'm
not sure what else to call it.

It's irrelevent to the poll as far as I can see

Factually it is playing a file and that is all that is being asked..

Personally, I find the poll gives you a sense of how people on the forum interact with their systems.. that's all it's about. Plus I suppose it helps to know what to talk about on here - won't get much response about 8 track but vinyl's a better bet than CD.

[The Grand Wazoo]

I'm sorry but I don't see the difference.
When I selected 'turntable' in the poll I didn't feel the need to specify whether I use my great aunt's hand me down Dansette with a knackered ceramic stylus or a high end audiophile turntable costing £140,000. I expressed the fact that I have a device which plays records.
Why differentiate between types of (non-CD) digital sources?

[joey]

The only thing i dont have is an 8 track!

[nat8808]

Only 4 people of the 52 so far don't have a turntable... interesting. Thought it would actually be more than that.

[Alex_UK]

Well in that case why have 3 different types of magnetic tape?

[The Grand Wazoo]

Because the carrier is significantly different in all 3 cases.

[Macca]

I think we should get Nilson or Gallup in and have them do the poll properly and scientifically. Whip round from all members should only be about £40K or thereabouts, Marco will stump up most of it..

Oh yeah - Turntable, tuner, and a CD player...

[Alex_UK]

Because the carrier is significantly different in all 3 cases.

And there isn't a significant difference between playing an MP3 file out of the headphone socket of an iPod compared to playing a FLAC file from a dedicated music server into a DAC?