A good idea is to try to source some material that is fully 24/192 or some such to begin with .
A modern as good as it gets digital recording . A do think headphones are very good at this especially closed ones SN ratio and distortion is very low . Speakers distort a lot and the room interaction is not always favourable , unless you have real acoustic treatment . As for spatial cues ? who knows , speakers are multiway with multiple drivers ,maybe a couple of quad ESL. 63 or what they are named to day could preserve them better than phones ? However I did my A/B test with my hifi and speakers for two reasons . My sound card in the PC is not hifi ,here I could use phones. Most if my listening is with my hifi rig anyway and it would be interesting to know what I could expect from it . I did some test with very quit signals some years ago and my hifi has no problem resolving signals -112dB . in practice this kind of test is not valid as it uses very high volume , at normal listening levels such signal would not be heard. That is another interesting thing you can do . Sit in your normal listening position set the hifi to your normal listening volume .play back some signals of diminishing volume and take note when you can't hear them anymoore , you will not get to -96dB unless your normal listening volume is painfully high :) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 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
