RonM wrote: > The world of magic, as in stage magic, provides a useful context for > this debate. I have personally known prominent stage magicians (among > them the late Doug Henning). That world revolves around illusion -- > "doing" things that really just can' be done. It's skilled artifice, > the creation of false reality. > > The difference between the audience in that world and the audience for > our friends the audiophile-magicians, is that no one actually believes > the former are doing the things they pretend to be doing. No pretty > ladies actually sawed in half. The audiophile-magicians, though, want > us to believe that they really have reduced jitter to inaudible levels. > > R.
But they have reduced jitter to inaudible levels because even before adding the $500 USB cable the jitter was already inaudible. They are just creating a nonexistent beast and then somehow magically slaying the nonexistent beast. I'll say it again because it's always worth saying: Follow the money! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
