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Is a hard drive just a hard drive? Does importing sound files on the built in CD player make sense?

Please let the computer magazines cover iPods and downloadable music! I, and I believe most Stereophile readers, consider computer audio only a sideshow. Our primary interest is in high-performance audio products and superior quality music.

And I'll be one of the first contributors. I've built a "silent" computer.

Although I use a laptop in my travels, the last thing I'll ever read or card about is music running through a computer. There is no bigger turn off for me

Cover the future!

I spend quite a bit of time in front of my computer, both at work and a t home. I want it to sound better than it does.

Only if it becomes apparent that no alternatives exist or will ecome minimal in the future.

Leave that for a computer publications. When I read Sterophile I want to know about speakers and amps etc., more than computers! Yes I like computers, but the magazine cannot do justice to the evolution in tech (it's obsolete every two weeks). I'm in the IT engineering field and do not enjoy the computer based sound systems. Even for an engineer, PC's will never replace the "sound" of even the worst seperates! This is our hobby, and I do not consider computers or handheld MP3 players a hobby. Playing records and CD's are my hobby, software and computer languages are multimedia, aka "convergence". No wimpy 3 for me! PCM, SA-CD, DVD-A\V and the next revolution is what I think our hobby is about!

I know, I know, audiophiles are even not supposed to have computers in the same zip-code as their dedicated AC line-havin', mono, vinyl, Shakti-laden, 2 wpc. SET, tweeky rigs. But common guys, computers, digital room correction, music (and, horror of horrors movie?!?) servers, and down-loadable music are going to be THE FUTURE (like it or not), and I

It is a popular way to listen...maybe there are topics or products worthy of at least a mid-fi label. But we will probably not know unless we look....

I spend a lot more time at my computer than I used to. I would like to have much better fidelity while I compute.

Even though my stereo kills my computer in tearms of sound quality, I find that I spend 80% on my computer and 20 on my stereo so I guess that better sound is in order for the computer format, however it seems that most people into gaming like lots of slam and not so much refinement in thier sound. so it seems that the software companys will continue to give us 0.K. sound cause it good enough for most people.

I'm interested in reviews of computer audio only if you are reviewing the high-end/professional equipment not covered by the typical computer magazines.