Hi Phil, I certainly appreciate the photography analogy since I'm heavily involved in that world as well.
IMO upgrading to better audio gear for playback is like buying a better monitor to show off one's pictures in full resolution, better color depth, improved contrast... There are obviously good monitors and bad ones that cannot be properly calibrated or have deficient specs. When we take photos, we never hear photographers say that the same shot will somehow look different if the file is on an SD/CF/memory stick, or 8x CF is better than 32x. Likewise, nobody is concerned if I have a crappy slow USB1 card reader or super-duper USB3 reader... God forbid archiving your precious wedding/baby/family/vacation photos to CD! However, they believe that copying a WAV file off a CD drive 1x vs. 16x makes a difference. Even worse they KNOW an exact bit-perfect copy can *sound* different. Imagine the hilarity at a photo club if I announced that one should/must use only slow Lexar CF cards, USB1 cards readers, and a computer that is underclocked to 1GHz, otherwise the pictures cannot be transferred safely with "full resolution"! Yet, this is the kind of GITB (Ghost In The Bit) delusion being perpetuated in mainstream audio? I think it would be fascinating to survey how many 'audiophiles' believe this nonsense. I wonder if reputable manufacturers ever complain to the magazines? -- Archimago ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
