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Is it possible to get hi-fi output playing MP3 files from a computer through a stereo system?

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Is it possible to get hi-fi output playing MP3 files from a computer through a stereo system?

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Well… I do play my MP3 files through my stereo systems, both in my office and in the living room. But what I’m doing is not really “hi-fi”. Well… it probably sounds better than what was considered “hi-fi” in my youth, but it wouldn’t come anywhere near to meeting current “audiophile” standards, which is what I get the impression you are aiming for. We had a lengthy discussion about this in this group just recently. For me, the results I get by just using a shielded audio cable to connect the line-out of my sound card to an aux input on my stereo are perfectly satisfactory. But I don’t have “audiophile ears” and my standards are not enormously exacting. As other posters in the original thread pointed out at length and in detail, there are various reasons why playing MP3 from a regular computer is unlikely to meet “audiophile” standards – apart from the possible quality limitations of the MP3 files themselves, a PC soundcard is unlikely to produce audio of the requisite quality. If y

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