I'm sorry but in recent times this forum has veered into the plain bizarre "X Files" territory. This isn't a comment on Mphilips recent post btw... it's a thought that has been brewing for weeks in my head.
I'd rather believe in the magic clock than some of the things being reported on the "Audiophile" forum with no actual evidence to back them up. http://www.audiojunkies.com/blog/959/will-gullible-audiophiles-buy-absolutely-anything I'm sick and tired of being told that my system just isn't revealing enough to hear vital subtleties by people who have never spent even one minute in a recording studio - I'm sorry that is just baloney, as Mortslim called out in another thread. I've spent nearly 30 years doing that. To misquote ABC "I now what's good and I know what trash is". I know what master "tapes" sound like (as do some other people on these fora) and I know what the equipment is like that is used to make them. In an attempt to inject some sanity to these discussions I got heavily into AudioDiffMaker which can detect differences that are totally inaudible to human beings - and get told that it proves nothing because the software/audiocard isn't accurate enough (hogwash - it's at least as good as - if not better than - the hardware used to record the music in the first place). Then I get told that two computer files that are bit for bit identical can sound different - total hypertwaddle. No-one with any knowlege of how computers work would even think to make these claims but apparently it's OK because there is some magic (usually labelled "jitter") that explains all of this non-science. Oh, and apparently TCP/IP can't be relied on to reliably deliver accurate packets asynchronously and consistently over wires or wireless - well bang goes the Internet then... People really need to stop and think about the fact that computers are completely deterministic but analogue isn't and they need to understand where the transitions occur. In the SB world, until the bits from the disk hit the SPDIF transmitter/DAC/ASRC, (assuming no DSP on the way) there is NOTHING that can adversely impact the "signal" in a non-deterministic (ie not coded in the software) way... I've had enough of this nonsense. Every single one of these claims that I've managed or been bothered to examine has turned out to be wrong. I honestly never thought I'd think/write this but unless people are prepared/able to backup their claims with FACTS I'm just not interested. YMMV Please pass the Lagavulin/Talisker/Whatever! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74721 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
