pablolie wrote: > I think the standing question is "Do the vast majority of people benefit > from HD Audio?" ( to which I have established my own personal answer, > but to each their own). I am not a believer in absolute statements, > because -as you said- they can be easily proven wrong by a singularity. > Hence, any statement that contains "nobody" or "everybody" or "always" > will be always met by me with a questioning glance... > > But the key thing is - I don't think this study set out to find the > singular exception to an absolute statement, the goal was to show wider > validity of the parting premise - in which case the elimination of those > who admit to be unable to tell a difference seems questionable.
I go for practically nobody ;) which is about the same .. Couple that with the typical audiophile demographic and the typical old analogue recordings they listen to and I would not be surprised that if such a singular person ever would be found she would not be an audiophile . But the interesting part is why this never ending quest ? there are some ingrained beliefs that digital can't really be any good and it goes on and on . And on the other hand there is hardly no such quest for better records ? Well there is a handful of audiophile labels , but they hardly record anything anyone would listen to anyway ? Priority must be to make better sounding records as >99% of what's ever recorded would not fit any hirez criteria or even challenge good old 16/44.1 CD . But this passive aproach does not suit OCD type audiophiles with thier strong belief systems . Hope that the next records you buy sounds better and that some artist of any pedigree happened to record a good sounding record ? Instead they buy cable lifters and special power cords.... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105816 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
