Quad wrote: > Don't take the analogy too far. But yes, you're right, it's different. > > Me for myself I am unable to hear a difference between FLAC and WAV. But > I can hear differences between HDMI and USB outputs with otherwise > identical variables. They are both bit perfect. I can't give you a > plausible reason. > > The reason I was chiming in was that no matter what anyone tells about > differences in the digital domain, a handful of kamikaze pilots > immediately talks them down. The same who will tell you that it is not > possible to discern different modern DACs. Which - with all my respect - > is complete BS.
As one of the "kamikaze pilots" I beg to differ from your blanket statement. Speaking for myself I only "kamikaze" when individuals try to attribute analog properties to the digital domain, which is what the clowns who write for the audiophile press (print and online) do on a regular basis. I've said it before and I'll say it again: what is about digital audio that makes these clowns think that digital audio somehow behaves differently than all other digital media? Why is digital audio file that has been losslessly compressed somehow different from an Excel spreadsheet file that has been zipped? The ONLY correct answer is that IT IS NOT different. Lossless compression is just that: LOSSLESS. As for the clowns in the audiophile press - they are simply doing the bidding for their advertisers, readership be damned. And for the record different modern DACs do sound different because of the "A", which stands for "analog", which means that every DAC has an analog section and each analog section has it's own sound. See back to the analog domain which is very different from the digital domain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98630 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
