Wombat wrote: > I have no idea if this helps. None if it guarantees good sound. > My biggest problem with downloads in online shops today is how the > 16/44.1 version is created from the HiBit version in the same shop. It > is a gamble. When asking before buying you normaly get no answer.
Yes if the 24/192 , 24/96 and 16/44.1 version really sounds dramatically different from any download vendor I would be -realy- suspicious . Fraud , r,ember they sell homeopathic medics in stores , they do nothing . Tha active ingredient is in the buyer , placebo etc . You can turn the argument if the 16/44.1 really doesn't any different from the 24/192 they are practically eqvavilent to the consumer , unless he gets to know the facts then cognitive bias deflates . Same is the frauds with healt products with some "active" herbs or other product with alleged positive effects that really does nothing . Recently many producers of supplementary and alternative medicin realised this and thus you get only filler . Why spend $$$ on the magic herb that actualy doesn't do anything :) So when is this a fraud . Sell a " magic potion " and claim all kinds of stuff for it , that the magic ingredient X does all this . When in fact it does nothing it's all placebo . Or exclude ingredient X due to cost cuts ,the products does exactly the same thing . This would be even more fun with homeopathic "drugs" the claimed mechanism for their effect makes it actually impossible to scientifically trace any active ingredient . If you just fill a bottle with water or dilute a solution so much that it practically becomes a bottle of water they are the same :D ( an OT would be all alternative stuff that's actually spiked with real active ingredients , gongrats you self medicate with unknown doses of unknown substances ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (spares Touch, 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=103091 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
