Patrick Dixon;214016 Wrote: > Thanks for the link. > > They seem to be attributing any differences to servo noise being passed > through the DAC. So I guess that would make me right on the cause, but > wrong on the mechanism? >
Did you notice the most relevant conclusion, which is that there were no statistically significant audible differences, either in the large scale listening tests or in the two expert listeners they tested individually? It's not very interesting to speculate about the causes of an effect that doesn't exist. As they say: > > However, the blind tests, whilst as yet too small in number to > be conclusive, suggest that differences may actually be too > small to be audible, even amongst expert listeners. If so, then > other psychological factors must be responsible for the > assertions by nearly all listeners tested that they can actually > hear a difference. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36503 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
