Archimago wrote: > Okay, maybe... > > Don't know the guy and have no reason to automatically think anyone's > lying so will go with the "probably mistaken" option for now unless > reasons show up otherwise.Oh, I see - John Westlake is a very well known > audio designer & E'ee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Westlake
> Nope, I generally listen first then measure. For example, the recent > Light Harmonic Geek Out V2 isn't much to look at but I did listen 1st > and 'posted positive initial impressions' > (http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/08/preview-look-at-light-harmonic-geek-out.html) > then did the 'measurements' > (http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/09/measurements-light-harmonic-geek-out-v2.html) > which ended up indeed being excellent. I've tried for years to listen > for difference between WAV vs. FLAC, silver vs. copper interconnects, or > different SPDIF cables... Never noticed a difference and was overall > "happy" with generic cables and bitperfect software. Admittedly I felt > insecure and perhaps even envious about this since all these other > audiophiles seem to be experiencing something I wasn't. I'm glad I'm > feeling much more secure about the claims these days. The strange thing > was I thought my hearing was better than many because I could hear > anomalies and helped a few fix problems (like one of them was listening > to his music all along using MP3 transcoding!). This is all before I > started to measure anything.Right, so I'm even more quizzical why you have > never heard some audible difference that you couldn't measure? I had similar thoughts about USB cables - lots of people reporting audible differences with different cables - the ones I tried, I couldn't hear any diff (I didn't go to the really expensive ones) so I decided to investigate further starting with a USB adapter i.e no cable & I could hear a difference > To the Regen, no, not yet. I will if/when a friend gets his. Like I > said, I'm not too interested given the lack of rationale for this to > make much if any difference... Been around too long since the days of > trying to cryo cables and green pens for CDs to keep trying unlikely > stuff based on pure testimony.Sure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jkeny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35192 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104340 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
