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mp3 and highend components?

Ok i'm extremely new to the high end world (but a music freak).I'm in the process of buying a tube intergrated amp.But with the advancement of music storage(mp3).I'm thinking that it might be wrong or taboo to hook up my line out of my Ipod to this tube amp.
I have moved away from going through my hundreds of cd's.I have about 100gigs of music stored on external hard drive,aswell as a 60 gig Ipod.My question is,should i bee getting the cd's out of the closet to play on my new tube amp??.Am i offending purist by using the ipod ass my source?
What is everyone else doing to move along with the times??.Any ideas?
If all my music is on mp3 should i not bother upgrading my stereo gear?
thanks for any thoughts you might have for me.
bunkertoyd2ba

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armstrod
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While my main sources are vinyl, Redbook CD and FM, I also have a computer hooked up to my system to stream radio stations off the Internet at speeds from 64k to 320k. When I added a tube preamp all sources were improved greatly, but the biggest improvement was with the streaming. My theory is that tubes add back some of the harmonics lost during the MP3 compression process. Regardless of how/why it works, it makes streamed music very listenable.

I say hook up the iPod and enjoy!
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