satkinsn wrote: > What a fine read! Inspirational line: " I would gladly listen to an MP3 > 192kbps of a well recorded/mastered album than a poor DSD128 or 24/192." > It's taking some time, but I think the broader audio community is > starting to change its mind about what's most important. > > s.
You must be joking! If you mean by "the broader audio community" everyone EXCEPT audiophiles then perhaps there may be a very small kernel of truth buried somewhere but as far as I can tell things shake out like this: 1) In the broader non-audiophile audio community almost NO ONE cares about sound quality, as in whatever iTunes sells is good enough and everything iTunes sells is worthless from an audio perspective. 2) The audiophile community gets their marching orders from the various high end audio publications, whether in print or online, and the various high end audio publications get their marching orders from their advertisers and their advertisers are in business to sell things. Right now the manufacturers of DACs want people to buy new DACs and so the need for DSD capable DACs is being drummed into audiophile's gullible little brains. The small kernel of truth I mentioned exists because in spite of the above there are a very small handful of artists, producers, recording engineers, record labels, vendors, etc. who actually care about sound quality and NOT ripping people off. Basically whenever I come a well recorded, great sounding recording I consider it just a very lucky fluke. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101052 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
