item_audio;692976 Wrote: > If you're serious about getting a digital front end to sound really > good, in a costly system - like a good turntable or old-school high-end > CD player - you inevitably have to deal with the issues I've outlined. > Horses for courses. I disagree. My speakers/amp combined cost over £3000. I also have a vinyl front end which cost over £1500, years ago. Modest in the general scheme of things, I know, and my turntable was criticised in some "hifi" circles for sounding too "digital", lacking "bloom", whatever that means, but I find the sound from the SB into a good DAC comparable. I do not have to deal with your issues. item_audio;692984 Wrote: > > However, given that no-one stands to make a penny from the idea that > rips or file formats differ, we can't even impute a commercial motive > to the OP, who isn't even getting the right to reply. So that shouldn't > annoy you. > There might not be a direct commercial angle to the TAS stuff under discussion, it might be that the authors are simply insane (see the recent quote that the original quality of a wave file cannot be recovered from a losslessly-compressed file!). But more generally, this sort of nonsense does feed, precisely, the fear, uncertainty and doubt of the more afflicted audiophile, and as such creates the environment in which dishonest people can sell snake oil.
In any case, it annoys me, in the same way that the previously mentioned homeopaths and creationists do, because I care about the truth, in all areas of life. item_audio;692984 Wrote: > > I've elsewhere argued that it's ethically indefensible for almost any > interconnect to cost more than £500. But you offer for sale (I nearly wrote "you sell", but that might be going too far) several cables over that price, including an cable, perhaps with unintentional irony called the "illusion", at well over £1000. item_audio;692984 Wrote: > > What really rubs on us, I think, is knowing that the highest levels of > sound reproduction are only available to the privileged few who can > afford them. And you seem to want to make this situation worse by encouraging people to spend money on solutions to problems that you can't even properly define - the very definition of the FUD tactic. Might it be that putting a cheap computer in a shiny box and fiddling with the software before selling it for a relative fortune is much more profitable that actually manufacturing anything worthwhile? -- darrell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13460 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549
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