jkeny wrote: > > Jkeny unveils his new deflection strategy - call every question a > personal attack. > > OK, I can work with that. > > Let's take a little look at some of jkeny's marketing materials: > > https://sites.google.com/site/jkciunas/press > > " > April 18th 2014 > The Ciunas is a great interface, and a great interface for the price. > While its strong jitter rejection can translate in more treble quantity, > thus potentially making a DAC less forgiving over certain recordings, it > gives several benefits throughout the whole sound spectrum. I dont have > a Metrum Octave anymore, but I am sure it would be a fantastic pairing, > with the Jkenny being capable of magnifying the Metrums detail > rendition, coupled with the DACs warm tonality. > In general, apart from the specific case of AMR, I would advice towards > using it with any warm sounding DAC around, and then further tune the > sound with the coaxial cable if necessary. > I would likely avoid using it with more edgy DACs like the Audio-gd > NFB-9. > In the end, the fundamental phylosophical difference I found between the > Ciunas DAC and the Ciunas USB/SPDIF converter, lies in the fact that the > Ciunas DAC wants to be an affordable, stand-alone solution that tries to > be the best bang for the buck. The Ciunas USB interface, instead, is > more interesting for the high-ender audiophile, since it opens up > several combinations, and can be used with DACs that dont have the > cost constraints that drove the Ciunas DAC design. > " > > So, I can only think of two just questions that seem to be easy enough > for anybody who is reasonably familiar with the product's marketing to > answer: > > Is the above based on a statistically significant number of > time-synched, level-matched, bias-controlled listening tests or just > casual audiophile sighted evaluations > > If the latter, what is your estimate of the percentage of false positive > results, and how was that determined? > > Hope you don't find these humble questions to be personal attacks. TIA!
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