darrell;693130 Wrote: > There are an infinite number of unfounded hypotheses which we could > consider, but it would be a complete waste of time. Of course, > scientists sometimes need imagination to take a leap into the unknown, > and discover something new about our universe. But let's not kid > ourselves - the assertion that a binary data file is identical to > another binary data file, but at the same time not capable of > delivering the same information content, is not an issue at the > frontiers of science, it is simple madness. > > Without some sort of quality control (not to say a sanity filter), we > might as well all go looking for Russell's teapot.
+1 I would include the alleged WAV FLAC difference here and " only experience count "is bs, well this difference is mostly reported in sigthed test anecdotes by audiophiles aka crackpots , do you want an more unreliable source of " information "if so I don't know where to find it. Take this question to hydrogen audio they have exhausted the subject thoroughly for us . So we can move on to do something else. completely different environment WAV/flac ? The PC literally do >1000's of things at the same time the exceptionally undemanding task of yet open another file of any kind makes a difference ?? The " environment " change more depending on where on the disk the file is or what weekday it is. The laws of probability is against that any serous effort is to be spent chasing the unicorn in this case. There is well established explanations for this ( and most other tweak crap ) available from the field of psychoacoustic one name for it is expectation bias or placebo or confirmation bias, this is the most likely explanation . And why is there no anecdotes that says that FLAC is better than WAV ;) the offered explanation model of " environment " could easily apply to this POW to ( this makes this " explanation " crap but anyway ). Because in audiophile cargo cult fairytale land " compression " is such a scary word and the ignorant can't se the difference between lossles and lossy so this myth gained momentum and as all audiophile myths it never goes away :-/ initially some audiofools thought FLAC was similar to mp3 , you still get questions like this on some fora, sigh. The typical audiophile knee jerk reaction that you have to try yourself for everything is pure nonse , you must filter out things for example I'm not very likely to try out any magic pebbles from machine dynamica anytime soon . Nor I'm I likely to try homeopathy when I'm unwell there really is no mechanism by which it could work. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 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
