pablolie;186759 Wrote: > First of all, I was clearly kidding. Please accept my sincere apologies then. :)
pablolie;186759 Wrote: > Second of all, you must confuse me with someone else when it comes to > the "so beloved empirical methods". I actually have a very pragmatic > approach when it comes to audio equipment. I like to understand some of > the theories behind it, but then again I am very open minded, and fully > aware of the emotional element of psychoacoustics that go into it - > then again, I'll put a $ cap on the emotional stuff, there's not a > single multi-thousand $ esoteric element in my chain. I'll buy a cable > that's a couple $100 mostly because it looks cool, makes me feel good, > and the money doesn't hurt - but try to sell me a $2,000 cable and I'll > be "get outta here - I'd rather fly to Cabo for the week!". > > Then again, I think controlled listening tests are *very* important. I > have a pretty decent ear for differences. It's simply important to know > and stand to one's sound preferences, and acknowledge that better sounds > for me may not be better sound for someone else. Often the resolution > and detail is identical, but some aspects of it are presented a bit > different. I'll stand to my prefrence every time, and if I am able to > detect a difference every time (like between the SB3's internal DA and > the SB3-Toslink-AccuphaseDA chain), it's what ultimately makes me > decide on a certain configuration. > > I'll grant what a listening test like that doesn't prove is utter > linearity and perfect transparency - we may *prefer* somewhat distorted > sound that compensates for our individual hearing etc. Then again, the > fact that something comes out perfectly accurately our of the system > does not mean it'll make it equally accurate into my brain. I see again that we basically have very similar views... I know I tend to react too harsh when I ask purely technical question, in attempt to have a purely technical answer, but the replies are "try to listen". pablolie;186759 Wrote: > Besides, I'd really find if funny if some of those talking about Toslink > jitter due to distorted flanks then prove to have a tube amp in their > system. But that's the fun part of audio. :-) You didn't mean me here, right? 8-0 The last tubed thing I had in my life was black-white TV 30 years back... -- 325xi simaudio nova cdp >> simaudio moon i-5 >> revel performa m20 via acoustic zen matrix reference ii and acoustic zen satori -planned additions:... >> deq2496 >> lavry da-10 >>...- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 325xi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
