I have thousands of mp3s on my computer, mostly at 128-192kbits, and i want to play them on a hi-fi set.
Do you think purchasing a sound card, a receiver and a 5.1 speaker priced $ 900 in total is a good idea?
Details:
Creative Live 24 bit $60
Marantz 301 with dolby pro logic II $200
Paradigm CT 110 speakers $650
FYI, the receiver and hifi is considered beginner level for audiophiles.
Is my MP3 that good to deserve a hifi? Or should i go for a desktop 5.1 costing about $60?
2007-09-05 05:21:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
That is a great Hifi set up. Your Mp3s will sound their very best with that set up. But why just limit it to mp3s? start a LP collection or use as a smoking PC sound system.
2007-09-05 07:20:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's up to you. An Mp3 file is compressed at some level by definition. How much is up to the source. Most of the high frequency content is discarded, as tests conducted by the Mpeg committee and various companies, found most people unable to concentrate on all frequencies equally.
Having said that, a lot of people in the non audio phile segment of the population couldn't tell the difference between Mp3 and CD audio, much less anything higher bit rate.
I suggest you run a test of a piece of music in both CD audio and MP3 through your present system and see how much difference you detect. If you don't detect much change from CD to MP3, but you don't like the CD either, then you want to upgrade....
The Creative Labs card at 24 bit is using DSP sets, which are very high quality...It has the capability of scan rates up to 48Khz, which is considered AES (standards set by the Audio Engineering Society) compliant. Marantz has always been a great audio brand for quality reproduction...but I'm not familiar with the speakers through either review or personal experience so I can't broach an opinion on them.
An MP3 at 19Kbps is a pretty darn high quality for MP3....
2007-09-05 06:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by waynocook53 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
5.1 Channel speaker systems are not for playing MP3's, they're for watching movies.
Unless you spend a lot of time on your computer watching movies as well as listening to music, spending $900 is not a good investment on computer audio.
Your MP3's at 128-192kbps is average quality, meaning you will hear some artifacts on a "HiFi" setup. Since better equipment gives you the better detail and clarity, it will also enhance the flaws in your music.
In Short: Don't Waste Your Money!
2007-09-05 12:57:44 · answer #3 · answered by Neo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. The basic rules of High Fidelity sound reproduction are always the same .What is recorded on the software cannot be improved by the Source component. If information is lost,damaged,distorted,changed or altered by the Source nothing else down the chain can make up for,or repair it.You must put something good into the system to get something good out.
2007-09-05 13:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you're going to quickly discover the foolishness of having spent any money on hifi to play MP3s, or having spent any money on MP3s to play on hifi.
2007-09-05 07:29:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that this may well be overkill.
I'm thinking that you may well have all this 'sound',and a little computer screen which might not be in keeping with the quality
of the speakers.
Or sooner or later,you may wish to play a dvd....
There are good answers given by other Yahoo members here
on this.
2007-09-07 06:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by Johnny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start out cheap, and then if you're satisfied get something more expensive. I'd never even CONTEMPLATE spending that much money on a hi-fi myself :). A good alternative to speakers is a pair of sturdy, high quality headphones.
2007-09-05 05:29:57 · answer #7 · answered by Robert W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MP3s aren't living things you know
2007-09-05 05:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by Tom B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋