All right, DB or even SB testing isnt going to be anywhere close to easy to set up for me. But I did use my daughter to choose between FLAC and WAV on the puter...its upstairs while I was listening to tracks downstairs. These were my results.
Indian Woman by Brent Alan. Vocal and 1 acoustic guitar. Very easy to hear the difference on this track. Scored 9 out of 10 correctly, and missed the one right at the beginning. FLAC is more two dimensional, and the voice has less extension...its sounds thinner. Luka by Suzanne Vega. A bit more complex, but well recorded. 8 out of 10. Still easy to hear differences in the depth of the music. That was what I cued on. Whole Lotta Love by Led Zep. Thought I would try this to see what happens with rock n roll. Not good, 6 out of 10. There was nothing I could reliably cue on to hear the differences. I used the SB3 into the Audio Magic Kukama DAC w the Illusions 4D digital cable, and the Bolder modified ELPAC power supply. No time to do the SB as a stand alone player. I will ty to do that next month some time. Why there are differneces I am not sure. But I do know what I hear. In the past there have always been products that measured close and yet still sounded different. Digital cables are a good example. Since the music is still in bits, there should be minimal differences between cables. Yet they do sound markedly different. But in the end, I still find that I prefer uncompressed WAV through the SB in my system. Regards Mister Pig -- mister pig ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mister pig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38258 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
