Music sounds flat stored on the hard drive

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Jasper Van Der Loos

• 3 months ago

I have a problem. I found out when I connected my CD player to my Node 2i. What a beautiful sound I thought and what a difference with the music on my hard drive. This hard drive is connected to my router. Then i put a number of files on a USB stick. This stick connected to my Node 2i and then it sounded much better. But I want to control my music via the router since I occasionally put new music on it. So I don't know what I can do about this either. So why sounds my music stored on the hard drive flat? I have a WD drive with no separate power.

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  Paul Granone

  • 27 days ago

  Personally I avoid network connections back to a computer or NAS.  In my experience, the best sound quality is achieved with a USB stick or SSD connected to the USB input on the node.  Further, I get the best functiionality and sound quality with AIF format (uncompressed audio).   I would avoid WAV files as they do not support metadata.   AIF fully supports metadata so it all is organized perfectly.

  In summary, uncompressed audio in AIF format for metadata support connected to the USB input on Node.
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  Jasper Van Der Loos

  • 21 days ago

  But if I want to regularly add music to the disc, isn't it more convenient if the hard drive hangs in a network? In another post I asked a similar question. I found out that ALAC files only sound good when Replay-gain is disabled in the audio settings. Then I hear no difference with a FLAC or AIFF file.

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