PhilNYC;200207 Wrote: > It's a possibility that having a person/body at that location was > affecting the acoustics which impacted things like imaging, > soundstaging, etc.
That's possible, and no matter how well you design the test there are always going to be factors like that people will point to. We didn't do this carefully at all, because (at least for my part) I just wanted to know how significant the difference was. It sounds like a number of people feel XLR is possible to distinguish from RCA. So that will certainly go on my list as something to test for myself when possible. One question - it's sometimes possible to hear the difference even unbalanced cables make in the noise floor. I've tried this, and playing a silent or very quiet track at high volume you hear a different timbre in the noise with different cables. But it's totally impossible to hear when playing normal music at normal volumes. Cliveb and Tom, how would you characterize the balanced versus single-ended difference - was it a noise floor issue like that, or was it a significant change in the music? Did one clearly sound better? -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35068 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
