Themis;338570 Wrote: > Sure I can : > > False fact #1: An amplifier with 0.1% THD @ 1KHz "sounds worse" or "is > not as accurate" or whatever else than another amplifier which has > 0.005% [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both amplifiers having the same S/N ratio and the > same > frequency response. > > False fact #2: A 1$ worth audio cable has no audible coloration in > sound. > > False fact #3: A DAC with 95dB S/N ratio "sounds worse" or "is not as > accurate" or whatever else than another DAC having a S/N ratio of > 110dB. Frequency response and THD being the same. > > Pseudo-scientists can be anything : diy-hobbyists, electronic > engineers, sellers, hifi critics.. . Not all of people of these > categories are such. The problem is that hifi is not a science and (as > such) it has no universal rules. The pseudo-scientists simplify truth > and are ready to throw to everybody's face their partial truth > disguised into a scientific, unquestionable, fact.
Isn't it in how the science is used rather than if it's accurate? I mean the facts are right but the claims and conclusions are wrong. The science is there but it can be twisted to make people believe that something matters when in fact it doesn't. Like for example an amp with .2% THD @ 1KHz must be so much worse than than an amp with .005% THD @ 1KHz Way lower distortion, it's got to blow the other one away. It just makes sense. :) Unless you happen to know that the human ear can't hear distortion below (I think)1% you might fall prey to this kind of thinking. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45323 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
