Mnyb wrote: > I'm cheaper than you :) I can change my opinions completely for no more > than 200k$ I'm investing in a new apartment . I'll photograph my hifi > rig with all the fancy cables and publish in any hifi fora of your > choice . > > Cable vendors please pm me ... > > But joking aside a pity that the throughput was not better but it proved > another point everything works perfectly until it does not , anything in > the player buffer will play just the same . no subtle degrading of sound > . Ethernet is truly something else than the typical audio interface its > designed to work this way . > > ....(nice Mnyb rant).... > > > Faced with a result that seems to brake the rules and are truly > fantastic where would your investigation start :) I choose door nr 2 . > It's just overwhelmingly more likely . > In fact so overwhelmingly likely that the burden of proof is on the > person making these fantastical claims .
I think lots of audiophile misconceptions come down to the simple misunderstanding that bigger or more is not necessarily better. For example the current obsession with the big number of so called high resolution audio, 384kHz/32bit, can be countered with a better analogy of what the bigger numbers represent. I think a better analogy would be that the numbers represent the size of the envelope and the sound (music) is the letter. A bigger envelope has no effect on the letter. More bits means the ability to hold more dynamic range but doesn't change the dynamic range of the music. Higher sampling rates mean the ability to record higher frequencies but doesn't add high frequencies when those aren't in the original sound (music). With cables and wires the misconceptions are often based on the misunderstanding that improvements made by going from really cheap and poorly made cable to reasonably priced and well made cable are many, many orders of magnitude greater than any possible improvements made by going from reasonably priced and well made cable to insanely overpriced and well made cable. 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=103146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
