marcoc1712 wrote: > You missed the point, different could be determined by an ABX or other, > better could not! Better is a personal opinion, you are allowed to > disagree, sure, but You have to respect the fact that is his true, > honest, personal, opinion. > > Arguing on that matter is arrogant, means you want your opinion be > superior the others one and this is arrogant also if you have academics > titles, if you have not... > > We are still talking about 'better' here...
"Better" is a huge, gaping rabbit hole into which many audiophiles fall and on which much of the high end audio business is based. By moving all equipment evaluation into the world of opinion, i.e. this piece of equipment sounds better than that piece of equipment, all the evaluations become equally valid and thus beyond criticism. In other words, all the evaluations are equally pointless. In the case of sound of wav files versus flac files there are NO differences but there appears to be many opinions stating that wav files sound "better" than flac files. So what Julf is rightly asking is how is that "better" evaluation being determined since from a purely objective standpoint there are NO differences between the two files. For some strange reason I can never get over the fact of why believing in scientifically proven facts is considered an "opinion". So for example, would my belief that 2+2=4 be considered an opinion and subject to the same debate as say my opinion that "Unforgiven" is the best Clint Eastwood movie? Get the point? 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=104227 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
