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Need advice on HD tracks platback.

I have recently started buying some titles from HD Tracks. Some I like, Some I love, and some sound no better than the CD. I am buying them and down-loading them to an external Toshiba hard drive and playing them back through my Oppo 105. Is this the smartest way to listen to these. Also I am using the stock USB patch cable that came with the hard drive for both the down-load to the hard drive and play-back through the Oppo. Would I benefit from a higher quality cable in this location? Other gear is Rogue Audio Pharaoh, Tyler Acoustics Woodmere II, Monster power conditioner, Signal Cable Silver Resolution interconnects. Any Advice?
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mgattmch
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I am also using an Oppo 105 to perform D/A conversion. I use a MacBook Air to store (and download to) HD Tracks FLAC files with Aurdirvana Plus. I could not be happier with the results; see my previous post on this subject:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1364947210&openmine&zzMgattmch&4&5#Mgattmch

Admittedly my system has changed somewhat since I posted the above. But then again, what do you expect, I am after all using Audigon!
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