http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/ Engadget Comments for Onkyo's HDC-1.0 HD audio PC for audiophiles http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/Feb 1st 2007 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/Feb 1st 2007 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/Feb 1st 2007 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/Feb 1st 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/
That wouldn't be quite as sexy though.]]>Feb 1st 2007 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/
110dB SNR and 24bit/192kHz -- yeah, that exceeds CD sound quality. The software also ties back neatly to Onkyo's own "e-onkyo music" 24bit/96kHz download service.

If you did buy a mini ($600 only 60 GB Harddrive- my 80 gig powerbook is full now) you would have to buy an audiophile DAC (Benchmark DAC1 - $1000). That is $1600 and you don't get access to the 24bit/96kHz download service--- only 128 kbit compressed (mp4) from a 16bit/44.1kHz download service (iTunes). Even if you have high resolution discs, iTunes doesn't support them, so you would have to find ANOTHER piece of software to handle them.]]>Feb 1st 2007 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/Feb 1st 2007 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/Feb 7th 2007 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/onkyos-hdc-1-0-hd-audio-pc-for-audiophiles/audiophiles will not let inter connectors touch the ground, and for this reason is the same why computer are not a good source of audio and nothing close to audiophile standards. there is simply too many electric currents running through a computer, even if you had a sound card that was capable of producing such high quality you will still pick up interferences from nearby electrical devices (graphics card, power source, cd player and so on). the headline of this post is a joke, and really upsets me for the people it may fool.

if you want awesome sound quality from your computer buy a good sound card, onkyo makes two wonderful sound cards. then buy yourself some NHT M-00 monitors. this will cost you 700$ but you will have some of the greatest audio that is capable of coming out of a computer.

if you are interested in audiophile sound, hi-fi sound quality and are like me (dont have alot of money). Buy yourself a nice pair of headphones, a headphone amplifier, and hook your ipod up with a oxygen free copper IT or a 99.9999 pure silver IT.

cost for a decent audiophile setup through Headphones will cost you around 1-2k. cost for a speaker audiophile setup... lets just say speakers range from 10-70 thousand dollars, a piece.

don't get fooled by these marketing techniques.

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ATH-W1000 (for home) Grado sr-225 (for school) Esure E2c (for running)
AKG 999 Audiosphere
Ipod no less than 256kbs recordings
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