jimbobvfr400 wrote: > Agreed but there's no arguing it does make a difference for quite a lot > of folks in this particular sub forum. > > Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
Oh yes there is a case for arguing. While one cannot argue that expensive cases and other cosmetic features do make a difference for many audiophiles, one can argue that the difference has absolutely nothing to do with sound quality. Similar to the paint color on a sports car - the bright red Ferrari goes just as fast and handles just as well as the plain white Ferrari. Now all of our friendly back and forth on this subject would be nothing more than a friendly discussion if not for the fact that these purely cosmetic features of high end audio equipment are all too often taken as a sure sign of their sonic superiority. And the Squeezebox Touch is a classic example of this line of faulty reasoning. Instead of the high end audio press embracing the Touch, the Touch was damned with faint praise, mostly because of it's low price, decidedly non-audiophile pedigree and plastic case, with minimal mention of it's outstanding audio qualities. So sure if one wants to buy audio equipment with super expensive cases and other fancy cosmetic features and finishes that's all well and good but please don't for a minute think that all that cosmetic gloss does anything to improve the sound quality. 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=100948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
