jkeny wrote: > If only the so-called scientific minded would just show some semblance > of inquisitiveness, it would be a refreshing break from the usual > cynicism of everything that is usually demonstrated by those who are > afraid of expressing an interest in some audio aspect that might be of > interest. Sure, there are a fair few audiophile reports that are > mistaken or wildly hyperbolic but that doesn't men that you need to > close your mind to all new possibilities. Ask some questions before > summarily dismissing the report. > > So, I ask again of rgro - something that seems to have been overlooked - > is there a sonic difference between the two USB ports that you have > used?
Here's something I learned from a very wise thermodynamics professor many years ago - when someone tries to sell you a perpetual motion machine the first thing you need to do is an energy balance of the machine and once you do the energy balance you will quickly discover that the machine is nothing more than a con. This is ALWAYS true because any and all perpetual motion machines violate one or more of the three basic laws of thermodynamics. Notice that I used the word "law" since the three basic rules of thermodynamics are not rules or theories or axioms but LAWS and LAWS cannot be broken or even bent. Now a lot of the claims within the high end audio world are pretty much the equivalent of breaking physical LAWS. For example if a piece of music has a dynamic range of 65db then a bit depth of 16 is more than enough and increasing the bit depth to 24 has absolutely no effect on the 65db dynamic range of the piece music. Why? Because that is how things work. Of course you will tell me that I have closed mind, however I think that I have an open mind which happens to have a good filtering system, a system that can tell me when what is being proposed is within the realm of possibilities or outside that realm. If it is outside the realm of possibilities, i.e. does not adhere to physical laws or violates those laws, then I dismiss it for BS. 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=103818 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
