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Use a stand alone ( probably expensive) DAC between your PC and your amp Use a home cinema amp with all the wizzy bits - it will have digital inputs and on board DACs (but a budget item may have a poorly implemented DAC. Rerip your CDs to the lossless format of you choice. determined by type of coding and the quality of the DAC. The quality of the sound reaching your amp and speakers will be determined by the type of coding (lossy, like MP3 or lossless like FLAC, WMA Lossless or Apple Lossless). You can take the digital output from the PC by USB, or from the the card - probably by an optical SPDIF link, and give it to a better external DAC. All do the job, and all just zip up the contents of your CD, unpack them when you ask, and send them to your Digital to Analogue Converter - DAC.
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The big names in lossless format are Windows WMA Lossles, Apple Lossless and the Free Software format FLAC. The CD is copied to the hard drive as a "wave" file -exactly what is on the CD is on the hard drive - then the file is "zipped" - all or the data is there, but the file is smaller because of coding tricks. With lossless encoding none of the data is dumped- take the most common example - ripping a CD.
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With sound, the higher the declared bitrate, the better will be the approximation to the original when decoded and played back. Compare it to the number of pixels in a digital photo- the more the better, but the more the more expensive to make the digital picture and to store it. As the music is encoded some of the data is thrown away to save on storage space. Matt, the term "lossless" refers to the way the music is stored on your hard drive when you rip a CD or digitise an analogue source. in the thread concerning lossless formats arriving -still lossless- at the amp over a digital connection and so my not having to spend lots of ££s on a serious soundcard which I thought I was going to have to do. The room the system will be in is a large open plan living/dining/kitchen flat design in case that makes a difference to any recommendations. I was thinking of connecting the amp to the Mordaunt Short 906i speakers, which I understand come highly recommended on. Can you guys, who know so much more about all this than I do (bit of a newbie here), recommend a suitable amp in the £150-250 price range. I had been thinking of connecting the sound card to an amp in the Cambridge Audio Azur range but they don't seem to have a digital (SPDIF) port. I did not realize -before reading this thread- that I could achieve this totally losslessly by using a digital connection to an amp, what good news. My CD collection is now nearly converted to FLAC and I want to use PC software to play my music through an amp. Someone pointed me to this thread from another avforums forum and it is of particular interest to me.