heisenberg wrote: > Isn't this the same as saying that any claims that a water filter > system, installed in your kitchen, cannot possibly make any difference > to the cleanliness of the water you're drinking knowing full well that > the same water had travelled through various dirty, rusty pipes? > > Just because something has been messed with at the source and while > travelling to its destination, doesn't automatically mean it cannot be > fixed at the point of consumption.
No. Changing a power cord would NOT be the equivalent of filtering the water it would be the equivalent to replacing the piping between the sink and the water supply pipe in the wall. A filter would be the equivalent of something like the PS Audio Power Plant. heisenberg wrote: > Very good points. I don't think the debate is about the veracity of the > source information (like you've said, in digital world, a copy is 100% > identical to the original). So this copy can be tossed over and bounced > back-and-forth through countless channels till the cows come home, still > in the end it remains 100% faithful to its original. > > Where the differences may arise is at the point where a digital copy > gets RENDERED as an analog artifact. Two identical jpeg files WILL look > strikingly (and sometimes shockingly) different on two differently > calibrated monitors. That fact is very easy to demonstrate. > > Same applies to the rendition of the digitized music files. Differently > calibrated players will render the same and identical digital file > differently. Also easy to demonstrate to anyone with reasonably reliable > hearing skills. Agreed but that was not what I was trying to say. The situations I was referring to had the reviewer listening to the original file and the copy ON THE SAME EXACT EQUIPMENT and stating that the two files sounded different. Which is not the same thing as listening to a given file on two different systems or piece of equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
