magiccarpetride wrote: > Just because someone discloses their impressions to other like-minded > people doesn't automatically imply that the person who chooses to > confess feels entitled to be respected or endorsed. Humans like to > share, sharing is the spice of life, and people should not be afraid or > feel stultified when it comes to enjoying life. > > In this community, we gather to share our findings. Some findings are > based on rigorous scientific methodology, and can be shared in the form > of cold hard quantifiable facts. Some other findings are of a more > qualitative nature, and pertain to the more vague, touchy-feely > subjective side of the equation. Some people are not afraid to share > their feelings, some are. It all boils down to their individual > upbringing and how much of a scumbag their father was (how cold and > detached and heartless their father was while they were growing up; and > in defence of dead beat dads, we must acknowledge that alcohol plays a > very large part in destroying so many families. But I'm just rambling at > this point)
Once again you act like the master politician, who when asked a direct question gives a totally unrelated answer. The issue at hand is whether or not the bit perfect digital audio data stream which goes from a stock SB Touch to an external DAC can be somehow improved so that it will enable the DAC to produce a sound which is 100x better than that produced by a stock SB Touch. Now here's the rub: a digital data stream is something which consists of "cold hard quantifiable facts", the facts in this case the stream of ones and zeroes that make up the stream. Aside from the question of jitter (which remains a very big bone of contention, as in whether or not the amount of jitter in question can even be heard by any individual) there is no way to make the ones and zeroes "better". So what SBGK is saying is kind of like saying that he knows a way to make four more four like. Four is four. Period. One can no more make four more four like than one can make a string of ones and zeroes better. Period. This is the part of digital audio that most upsets audiophiles since no amount of money can or will improve the digital side of things. A lowly stock SB Touch can and will deliver the exact same digital audio data to an external DAC as a highly modified SB Touch or some mega-buck high end media streaming device. These are the "cold hard quantifiable facts". On the other hand, when speaking of highly subjective things, such as how an individual feels about a given piece of music, much of your totally off topic ramblings make some degree of sense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94418 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
