michael123;574401 Wrote: > 1) 24/96 hirez do not suffer from dithering, noise shaping, DRC and > other diseases. On top of that, usually, 24/96 are much better mastered > as being targeted to the audience for whom sound quality is important. > > 2) Well-engineered tubes might be even better than SS, I am about to > buy Octave 500 SE preamp, it has 115db SNR, DC to 500KHz/1.5db > response.. these are German-engineered tubes :)
Thats solid performance but it's still a paradox this amp would not introduce any audiable artifact's ,but is not cheaper and easier to implement this with SS technology , if noise distorsion and other and grunge is down -115dB nobody could tell it apart if was tube SS or pneumatic or mechanical or what ever ;) . it's probably a tour the force in engineering to make it this way but why ? Good performance is always that however it is achieved, but at some point our gear distorts so little that they are transparent, we don't hear as good as we think ? do we ? The resulting noise floor in my system would be more than -114db as i can still hear signal at that level (with my ear pressed to a speaker driver and the volume full up) it's still above the noise floor . My biggest "problem" is what to replace my aging speakers with, I'm so ingrained with how they sound, and I have found nothing in sane prices to replace them with. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
