325xi;145599 Wrote: > Because any such comparison is highly subjective. Some sound may appeal > to your taste but not to be really better. So we want to keep as much > as possible potentially influencing factors out of the picture. > If you compare Toyota to Ferrari and prefer Toyota because of more > comfortable raid, will it make Toyota really superior car overall? What > it really does is confuses those who aren't well familiar with both to > understand the "basic assumptions" such as "everybody knows what each > car is, but all I care is to go shopping, so..." > > Or take the cameras: little plain soapbox camera may give or almost the > same picture quality as a semi-pro SLR under perfect conditions. But the > conclusion that they are mutually replaceable is wrong, because the > result valid only for specific conditions. > > If one doesn't hear much difference between hi-end low-end DACs, it may > mean that they indeed don't really differ, but it also can mean the test > condition don't allow to hear difference, or that the person is unable > to hear it due to today's headache, or sound of better quality setup > just doesn't appeal to the listener, etc. So what such a comparison > worth?
You sound like a dealer that's afraid he will lose money with bargain priced gear. In hi-end audio there is often little correlation between price and quality. The only thing important is how it sounds, unless you want to pay a lot extra for a certain look.............but this has nothing to do with the sound of a unit. To automatically rule out comparisons between units in different price ranges is absurd in the extreme. -- tomjtx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomjtx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28369 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
