rgro wrote: > No harm, no foul! I will readily admit that, in years past, I've had my > dalliances (as many others have) with tweaks, etc. that have proven to > be harmless, but useless. My wire and interconnects are decent quality > and reasonably priced stuff from Blue Jeans. I do not believe that a > uber-expensive Ethernet or usb cables are going to change the sound of > my system. I do not believe that one version of my server o/s is going > to sound better than the other, etc., etc. The hardware in my system > is solid quality stuff but I do keep an open mind---particularly in the > analog noise end of things---that there may be some brilliant and > ethical folks out there that could come up with some ways to reduce > noise that we pretty much know is there. What the audible effect of > that is...I do not know. However, there seem to be a fair number of > unrelated folks out there who have tried this REGEN in their systems and > report comparable, audible results--along the lines of "I didn't know > there was noise there until it was removed". Expectation/perceptual > bias?...at $175, I'm not sure why, then, all the hoopla to justify a > rather small investment. But, truly, I don't know and I've not seen any > double blind tests that might serve to empirically verify. Yep, agreed, there are a lot of dead ends & cul-de-sacs in this audio hobby. A fair number of disappointments if you try every tweak/device that purports to improve the sound. It's difficult to tease out the ones that will deliver Vs the ones that won't - there are so many use cases & variables involved. As you say, a consensus of improvement by enough people on diverse systems with no obvious fanboy bias, is probably a good start to identifying products which may be worth personally checking out.
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